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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 10:45 PM CDT for Eastland County, Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2003, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Eastland County, TX, Stephens County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
189 WFUS54 KFWD 160345 TORFTW TXC133-429-160430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1044 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN EASTLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS SOUTHEASTERN STEPHENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1044 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES WAS 9 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF RANGER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RANGER AROUND 1055 PM CDT DO NOT LEAVE SHELTER TO USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AND CRUSHED BY TORNADO WINDS. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO THREAT...HAIL LARGER THAN GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3261 9884 3243 9884 3245 9852 3264 9859 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 61 min |
| May 15, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 44 min |
| May 15, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 56 min |
| May 15, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 66 min |
| May 16, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 61 min |
| May 16, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 63 min |
| May 16, 9:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 28 min |
| May 16, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 36 min |
| May 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 52 min |
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 45 min |
| May 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 59 min |
| May 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 60 min |
| May 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 45 min |
| May 16, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 54 min |
| May 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.