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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 6, 2001Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Bell County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 6, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Killeen, TX	A brief tornado was reported in Harker Heights. No damage reports were received.
May 6, 5:30 PM CDT	Hail 2	Nolanville, TX
May 6, 5:54 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Belton, TX	Reported by the emergency manager.

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
May 6, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 1500 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 11.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 062203
TORFTW
TXC027-062245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
500 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM OVER HARKER HEIGHTS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...HOLLAND...NOLANVILLE AND  
  SALADO

EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES FOR A STORM SHELTER OR PERMANENT BUILDING. IF
NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 3103 9783 3090 976Q7 3083 9733 3128 9750

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 11:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	3 hr
May 6, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	44 min
May 6, 1:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	3 hr
May 6, 1:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
May 6, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	65 min
May 6, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	62 min
May 6, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	40 min
May 6, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	66 min
May 6, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	46 min
May 6, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	51 min
May 6, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	47 min
May 6, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	44 min
May 6, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Milam	45 min
May 6, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	55 min
May 6, 6:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 6, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	57 min
May 6, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	53 min
May 6, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	38 min
May 6, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	66 min
May 6, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	32 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.