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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 28, 2000Cooke County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2000, 5:43 PM CST for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cooke County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 282344
TORFTW
TXC097-290030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 543 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MUENSTER...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH. SPOTTERS REPORT ROTATION AND A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THIS 
  STORM.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MUENSTER

THIS STORM EARLIER PRODUCED A TORNADO IN EASTERN MONTAGUE COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3359 9694 3368 9745 3360 9747 3345 9695

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, 5:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	37 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, 5:47 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.