Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2002, 6:59 PM CDT for Johnson County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Johnson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Grandview, TX | The tornado touched down in open country with no known damage. |
| Apr 16, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Grandview, TX | The tornado touched down in open country with no known damage. |
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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 162359 TORFTW TXC251-170030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 659 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JOHNSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 659 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF VENUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... VENUS AROUND 715 PM CDT 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 3233 9721 3226 9718 3228 9710 3245 9709
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, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 34 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 |
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.