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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 14, 2001Eastland County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2001, 5:50 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 3 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
Jun 14, 2001, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Eastland County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 5:52 PM CDTTornado F0Cisco, TXA brief touchdown was reported. No damage occurred.
Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDTHail 1.75Ranger, TX
Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDTHail 1Eastland, 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2858 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2858 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 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.

694 
WFUS54 KFWD 142251
TORFTW
TXC133-142330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
550 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 550 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO WEST  
  OF CISCO....MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. TAKE COVER AS THIS STORM        
  APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 3249 9909 3227 9899 3235 9871 3251 9863

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung39 min
Jun 14, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack61 min
Jun 14, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague57 min
Jun 14, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens, Young56 min
Jun 14, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague65 min
Jun 14, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack61 min
Jun 14, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens56 min
Jun 14, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto52 min
Jun 14, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke63 min
Jun 14, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland59 min
Jun 14, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise56 min
Jun 14, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague63 min
Jun 14, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack60 min
Jun 14, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton63 min
Jun 14, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker58 min
Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson47 min
Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland62 min
Jun 14, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise56 min
Jun 14, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath57 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.