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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 27, 2000Fannin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT for Fannin County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Fannin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 6:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Ladonia, TX	Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm wind.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 27, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

763 
WFUS54 KFWD 272301
TORFTW
TXC147-272330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
600 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FANNIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 600 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICALS REPORTED A TORNADO IN WOLFE
  CITY AT 600 PM.  THIS STORM IS MOVING ALONG THE FANNIN...HUNT COUNTY
  LINE.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

IF IN A MOBILE HOME...EVACUATE AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3351 9614 3338 9616 3342 9587 3359 9586

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	67 min
May 26, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Young	28 min
May 26, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Young	30 min
May 26, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	63 min
May 26, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	58 min
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague, Wise	60 min
May 26, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	65 min
May 26, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	59 min
May 26, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	66 min
May 27, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	64 min
May 27, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	65 min
May 27, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack	40 min
May 27, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	45 min
May 27, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Young	32 min
May 27, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	57 min
May 27, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	62 min
May 27, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	59 min
May 27, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	59 min
May 27, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	51 min
May 27, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	60 min
May 27, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	25 min
May 27, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	56 min
May 27, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	65 min
May 27, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	60 min
May 27, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	43 min
May 27, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	50 min
May 27, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	53 min
May 27, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	67 min
May 27, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	57 min
May 27, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	63 min
May 27, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	42 min
May 27, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	41 min
May 27, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Fannin	32 min
May 27, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	33 min
May 27, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	58 min
May 27, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hunt	37 min
May 27, 6:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Fannin	3 hr
May 27, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	65 min
May 27, 6:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Eastland	3 hr
May 27, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Delta	26 min
May 27, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	52 min
May 27, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	66 min
May 27, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hopkins	36 min
May 27, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	62 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.