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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 30, 2002Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 1:18 PM CST for Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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: Mar 30, 2002, 1:18 PM CST (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2002, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Limestone County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 30, 1:21 PM CST	Tornado F2	Thornton, TX	This tornado first touched down just west of farm road 2749 about .5 mile southeast of Thornton. Two houses were damaged, one mobile home destroyed and a mobile home unroofed. The tornado moved northeast damaging a barn, then moved into the Davis Prairie com
Mar 30, 1:55 PM CST	Tornado F0	Personville, TX	A shed roof was blown off, the antenna was blown off a house, and numerous trees were blown down. The tornado moved northeast into rural Freestone County 1.5 miles north of Personville.

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
Mar 30, 12:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 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 301918
TORFTW
TXC293-302000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
118 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 118 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER THORNTON...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3144 9664 3137 9662 3136 9650 3147 9628
          3158 9638

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 10:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	47 min
Mar 29, 11:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	55 min
Mar 29, 11:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	28 min
Mar 29, 11:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	23 min
Mar 29, 11:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	25 min
Mar 29, 11:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	56 min
Mar 30, 12:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	55 min
Mar 30, 12:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	78 min
Mar 30, 1:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	43 min
Mar 30, 1:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	59 min
Mar 30, 2:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	58 min
Mar 30, 2:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	46 min
Mar 30, 2:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	52 min
Mar 30, 2:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	71 min
Mar 30, 2:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	4 hr
Mar 30, 11:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	46 min
Mar 30, 12:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	56 min
Mar 30, 12:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	52 min
Mar 30, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	41 min
Mar 30, 1:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	62 min
Mar 30, 1:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone	31 min
Mar 30, 2:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	63 min
Mar 30, 2:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	41 min
Mar 30, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	51 min
Mar 30, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	57 min
Mar 30, 3:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Hamilton	63 min
Mar 30, 5:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	54 min
Mar 30, 5:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	52 min

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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.