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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 16, 2002Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2002, 5:56 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2002, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 16, 6:29 PM CDT	Hail 1	Euless, 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
Apr 16, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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.

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: 1027 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -236 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 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.

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 162256
TORFTW
TXC439-162330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
556 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF PANTEGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PANTEGO AROUND 600 PM CDT
  RICHLAND HILLS AROUND 610 PM CDT
  HURST AROUND 615 PM CDT
  BEDFORD AROUND 620 PM CDT
  COLLEYVILLE...EULESS...GRAPEVINE AROUND 630 PM CDT
  
  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES WITH DAMAGE

DO NOT STOP UNDER BRIDGES OR HIGHWAY OVERPASSES SINCE THEY OFFER NO
PROTECTION FROM TORNADO WINDS.

LAT...LON 3274 9734 3266 9725 3273 9705 3298 9705

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	60 min
Apr 16, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	65 min
Apr 16, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	60 min
Apr 16, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	52 min
Apr 16, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque	47 min
Apr 16, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	50 min
Apr 16, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	45 min
Apr 16, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Tarrant	29 min
Apr 16, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	58 min
Apr 16, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, Johnson	51 min
Apr 16, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	42 min
Apr 16, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Dallas	51 min
Apr 16, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	45 min
Apr 16, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	53 min
Apr 16, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Johnson	31 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.