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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2000, 6:40 PM CST for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- Mar 28, 2000, 6:40 PM CST (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
- Emergency
- Tornado emergency
County Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado F3 | Arlington, TX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 10 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 290041 TORFTW TXC439-290115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 640 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000 ...THIS IS A TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR FORT WORTH... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 640 PM CST...A TORNADO WAS OBSERVED BY DOPPLER RADAR AND TRAINED SPOTTERS 5 MILES EAST OF FORT WORTH...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * PERSONS ALONG THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR BETWEEN ARLINGTON AND FORT WORTH TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY! LAT...LON 3279 9734 3272 9734 3272 9707 3279 9706
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 58 min |
| Mar 28, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 6:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 62 min |
| Mar 28, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 7:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 7:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 46 min |
| Mar 28, 7:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 7:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Navarro | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 46 min |
| Mar 28, 8:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 8:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 46 min |
| Mar 28, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rains | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 62 min |
| Mar 28, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 10:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 11:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 12:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 3:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.