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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 2001, 3:51 AM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 11, 2001, 3:51 AM CDT (08:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2001, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 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), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 3:55 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Gainesville, TX | Tornado number three touched down 4 miles northwest of Gainesville. It then moved into Oklahoma, 6 miles north-northwest of Gainesville (5S Thackerville, OK). A mobile home and a storage shed were heavily damaged northwest of Gainesville. |
| Apr 11, 4:04 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Callisburg, TX | Tornado number three moved back into Cooke County approximately 6.8 miles northwest of Callisburg(3 ESE Thackerville,Ok) moved northeast and dissipated on the Texas-Oklahoma state line approximately 12 miles North of Callisburg (10 ESE Marietta, Ok) at 0315C |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 110851 TORFTW TXC097-110915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 351 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COOKE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 415 AM CDT * AT 351 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF MUENSTER...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF GAINESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 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 3364 9743 3351 9728 3376 9694 3392 9713
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 60 min |
| Apr 11, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 57 min |
| Apr 11, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 50 min |
| Apr 11, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 55 min |
| Apr 11, 2:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 47 min |
| Apr 11, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 65 min |
| Apr 11, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 57 min |
| Apr 11, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 41 min |
| Apr 11, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 63 min |
| Apr 11, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Somervell | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 63 min |
| Apr 11, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Grayson | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 50 min |
| Apr 11, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 37 min |
| Apr 11, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 34 min |
| Apr 11, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 41 min |
| Apr 11, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 30 min |
| Apr 11, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 45 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.