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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 24, 2002Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 2002, 5:29 AM CST for Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 24, 2002, 5:29 AM CST (11:29 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 2002, 6:00 AM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hamilton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 00:00Z on 2002-01-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1106 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 00:00Z on 2002-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 241129
TORFTW
TXC193-241200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
528 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 AM CST

* AT 528 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HAMILTON...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HAMILTON AROUND 533 AM CST

LAT...LON 3172 9831 3156 9818 3177 9783 3197 9800

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 5:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills38 min
Jan 24, 5:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton43 min
Jan 24, 5:50 AM CSTTornado WarningFWDBosque40 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.