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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 28, 2000Montague County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2000, 5:08 PM CST for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2000, 5:08 PM CST (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Montague County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 28, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 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 282309
TORFTW
TXC337-282345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
508 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CST

* AT 508 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO BETWEEN MONTAGUE AND ST JO.
  THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 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.

LAT...LON 3371 9759 3367 9768 3345 9764 3345 9748

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 3:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	46 min
Mar 28, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	52 min
Mar 28, 4:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	44 min
Mar 28, 4:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	51 min
Mar 28, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	67 min
Mar 28, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	50 min
Mar 28, 5:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	42 min
Mar 28, 5:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	48 min
Mar 28, 5:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke	47 min
Mar 28, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	43 min
Mar 28, 5:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	57 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.