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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 2000Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2000, 9:11 PM CDT for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
Jun 3, 2000, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Parker County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDTTornado F0Weatherford, TXA brief tornado was reported seven miles south of the downtown area on main street.

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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1033 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1033 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 040213
TORFTW
TXC367-040315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
911 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.

* AT 911 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEATHERFORD...MOVING    
  EAST AT 15 MzPH.  ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES 
  SOUTHWEST OF SANCTUARY...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF RENO...MOVING EAST   
  AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

LAT...LON 3278 9790 3260 9790 3258 9756 3280 9755

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker3 hr
Jun 3, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker41 min
Jun 3, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant65 min
Jun 3, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker32 min
Jun 3, 10:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
Jun 3, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson65 min
Jun 3, 10:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker3 hr
Jun 3, 10:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Jun 4, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Grayson3 hr
Jun 4, 1:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant3 hr
Jun 4, 1:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood2 hr
Jun 4, 1:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Jun 4, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Jun 4, 3:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Hopkins, Hunt3 hr
Jun 4, 3:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Navarro3 hr
Jun 4, 3:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque3 hr
Jun 4, 3:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Somervell3 hr
Jun 4, 3:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
Jun 4, 4:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Jun 4, 6:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Hunt3 hr
Jun 4, 6:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Navarro3 hr
Jun 4, 7:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson2 hr
Jun 4, 9:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins2 hr
Jun 4, 9:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Jun 4, 10:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker3 hr
Jun 4, 10:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins4 hr
Jun 4, 11:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant4 hr
Jun 4, 11:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson4 hr
Jun 4, 1:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker3 hr
Jun 4, 5:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan3 hr

Nearby

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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.