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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 16, 2002Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2002, 4:58 PM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 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), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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, 5:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Walnut Spgs, TX	Non-specific wind damage was reported by a radio station in Hillsboro.

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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 162158
TORFTW
TXC035-162245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 457 PM CDT... A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR WALNUT SPRINGS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL BOSQUE COUNTY AROUND 510 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 3206 9785 3198 9775 3204 9751 3212 9752
          3221 9762

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, 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
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.