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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 5, 2003Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2003, 8:09 PM CST for Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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
Apr 5, 2003, 8:09 PM CST (02:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 2003, 9:00 PM CST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 5, 4:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 2003-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 640 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 2003-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
353 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

460 
WFUS54 KFWD 060209
TORFTW
TXC113-439-060300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
806 PM CST SAT APR 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DALLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  EASTERN TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 806 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF
  PRODUCING TORNADOES WAS 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH RICHLAND
  HILLS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  EULESS...GRAPEVINE AROUND 815 PM CST
  IRVING AROUND 825 PM CST
  FARMERS BRANCH AROUND 830 PM CST
  GARLAND AROUND 855 PM CST
  ROWLETT AROUND 900 PM CST

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM BESIDES THE POSSIBILITY OF 
TORNADOES...THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL TO BASEBALL SIZE...DAMAGING 
WINDS TO 70 MPH...AND FLOOD-PRODUCNG RAINS.

DO NOT STOP UNDER BRIDGES OR HIGHWAY OVERPASSES SINCE THEY OFFER NO
PROTECTION FROM TORNADO WINDS.

LAT...LON 3298 9729 3280 9728 3277 9652 3298 9653

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 6:29 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker61 min
Apr 5, 6:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young56 min
Apr 5, 6:52 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDParker, Tarrant53 min
Apr 5, 7:20 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant4 hr
Apr 5, 7:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack50 min
Apr 5, 7:44 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDParker, Tarrant61 min
Apr 5, 8:16 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas4 hr
Apr 5, 8:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Wise55 min
Apr 5, 8:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin59 min
Apr 5, 8:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Rockwall46 min
Apr 5, 9:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Tarrant, Wise54 min
Apr 5, 9:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague65 min
Apr 5, 9:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt58 min
Apr 5, 9:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall63 min
Apr 5, 9:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton47 min
Apr 5, 10:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Montague93 min
Apr 5, 10:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt62 min
Apr 5, 10:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins55 min
Apr 5, 10:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin64 min
Apr 5, 11:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson65 min
Apr 5, 11:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins63 min
Apr 5, 11:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt60 min
Apr 6, 12:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Grayson60 min
Apr 6, 12:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins56 min
Apr 6, 1:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin46 min
Apr 6, 1:31 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar59 min
Apr 6, 9:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague62 min
Apr 6, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin64 min
Apr 6, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson47 min
Apr 6, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar39 min
Apr 6, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Rains57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.