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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 24, 2002Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 2002, 5:50 AM CST for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
Jan 24, 2002, 5:50 AM CST (11:50 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 2002, 6:30 AM CST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bosque County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:54 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 24, 6:08 AM CSTHail 0.75Meridian, 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 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 241150
TORFTW
TXC035-241230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 AM CST

* AT 548 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A  
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO BETWEEN CRANFILLS
GAP AND HICO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MERIDIAN AROUND 615 AM CST

TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME IN AN INTERIOR CLOSET
OR BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS FOR COVER.

LAT...LON 3193 9793 3173 9779 3188 9738 3217 9759

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, 5:29 AM CSTTornado WarningFWDHamilton31 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.