Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2002, 5:31 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. 5 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, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Everman, TX | The first tornado developed near the intersection of Noble Road and Hansbarger Road and moved northeast. Damage to fences carports and trees occurred. The tornado moved northeast into the Bonaventure Mobile Home Park, partially unroofing one mobile home, wit |
| Apr 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ft Worth, TX | The second tornado developed in southeast Ft Worth near the intersection of Anglin Drive and southeast Loop 820, moved northeast and dissipated between Melinda Road and the old Mansfield Highway. Damage was confined to uprooted trees and minor roof damage. |
| Apr 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ft Worth, TX | The third tornado developed in southeast Fort Worth along Redwood Boulevard north of Collett Little Road, moved northeast across Loop 820 near Sun Valley Drive and dissipated north of Laster Road.Damage was confined to trees and mobile homes. |
| Apr 16, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado F3 | Ft Worth, TX | The fourth and most significant tornado of the day developed in east Fort Worth just south of Ramey Avenue east of Loop 820, moved north and dissipated between Forest and Haynie streets, south ofGreenlee Street. Damage occurred to a strip mall, with heavy dam |
| Apr 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ft Worth, TX | Occurred near Interstate 30 in east Fort Worth. |
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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 14 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 162231 TORFTW TXC439-162300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 531 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 531 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EDGECLIFF...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FOREST HILL...KENNEDALE AROUND 540 PM CDT FORT WORTH AROUND 545 PM CDT DALWORTHINGTON GARDENS AROUND 555 PM CDT RICHLAND HILLS...PANTEGO...HURST...ARLINGTON AROUND 600 PM CDT * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BEDFORD...COLLEYVILLE... CROWLEY...EULESS...EVERMAN...HALTOM CITY...NORTH RICHLAND HILLS AND RENDON DO NOT LEAVE SHELTER TO USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AND CRUSHED BY TORNADO WINDS. DO NOT STOP UNDER BRIDGES OR HIGHWAY OVERPASSES SINCE THEY OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM TORNADO WINDS. LAT...LON 3265 9748 3252 9733 3270 9705 3300 9712
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, 5:47 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 |
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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.