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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 2:33 PM CST for Denton County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 4, 2004, 2:33 PM CST (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Denton County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 4, 11:50 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KFWD 042033
TORFTW
TXC121-042115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
231 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN DENTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 315 PM CST
* AT 231 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES
WEST OF KRUM...OR IN THE VICINITY OF BOYD AROUND 225 PM CST...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
NEAR KRUM AROUND 245 PM CST
NORTHERN DENTON AROUND 245 PM CST
AUBREY AROUND 250 PM CST
SANGER AROUND 255 PM CST
PILOT POINT AROUND 255 PM CST
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE KRUGERVILLE
IN ADDITION TO TORNADOES, HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND DAMAGING
WINDS TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
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 3315 9732 3334 9737 3343 9725 3342 9684
3330 9684
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 12:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 12:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 12:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stephens | 51 min |
| Mar 4, 12:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 43 min |
| Mar 4, 12:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 48 min |
| Mar 4, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 1:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 67 min |
| Mar 4, 1:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 1:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 41 min |
| Mar 4, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 55 min |
| Mar 4, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 64 min |
| Mar 4, 1:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 54 min |
| Mar 4, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hood, Somervell | 64 min |
| Mar 4, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 63 min |
| Mar 4, 2:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 33 min |
| Mar 4, 2:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, McLennan | 56 min |
| Mar 4, 2:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 46 min |
| Mar 4, 2:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 59 min |
| Mar 4, 2:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 54 min |
| Mar 4, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Hill | 63 min |
| Mar 4, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 55 min |
| Mar 4, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 53 min |
| Mar 4, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, McLennan, Milam | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 59 min |
| Mar 4, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone, Navarro | 64 min |
| Mar 4, 3:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis | 41 min |
| Mar 4, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rockwall | 64 min |
| Mar 4, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Hunt | 46 min |
| Mar 4, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 61 min |
| Mar 4, 3:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 54 min |
| Mar 4, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 49 min |
| Mar 4, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 49 min |
| Mar 4, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 17 min |
| Mar 4, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Leon | 55 min |
| Mar 4, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 18 min |
| Mar 4, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 20 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.