Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2002, 8:01 PM CDT for Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ellis County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Waxahachie, TX | This tornado touched down on Interstate 35 near mile marker 394 south of Waxahachie. Two tractor trailers were overturned. |
| Apr 16, 8:11 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Waxahachie, TX | Occurred on Interstate 35. Two 18 wheelers were blown over. |
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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 170101 TORFTW TXC139-170145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 800 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ELLIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALMER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PALMER AROUND 835 PM CDT ENNIS AROUND 840 PM CDT DO NOT STOP UNDER BRIDGES OR HIGHWAY OVERPASSES SINCE THEY OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM TORNADO WINDS. LAT...LON 3240 9691 3229 9691 3228 9657 3244 9659
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 52 min |
| Apr 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 56 min |
| Apr 16, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 8:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 64 min |
| Apr 17, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 44 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.