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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 6, 2004Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2004, 7:14 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 6, 2004, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 2004-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 608 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
987 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

957 
WFUS54 KFWD 070014
TORFTW
TXC497-070100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
712 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED    
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST NORTH OF BRIAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15  
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RHOME AROUND 720 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3308 9763 3300 9758 3300 9740 3315 9739

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant55 min
Apr 6, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton67 min
Apr 6, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant64 min
Apr 6, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton63 min
Apr 7, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson36 min
Apr 7, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson30 min
Apr 7, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon38 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004

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.