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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 25, 2005Johnson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2005, 4:16 PM CDT for Johnson County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 25, 2005, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Johnson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 25, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 57 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 252116
TORFWD
TXC251-252200-
/O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0003.050425T2116Z-050425T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
416 PM CDT MON APR 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 416 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR KEENE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ALVARADO BY 435 PM
  VENUS BY 455 PM

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.

EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES FOR A STORM SHELTER OR PERMANENT BUILDING. IF
NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MONDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3226 9715 3228 9716 3228 9723 3229 9724
      3229 9732 3232 9745 3248 9743 3248 9710
      3228 9710

$$

65/DD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	62 min
Apr 25, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	44 min
Apr 25, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	62 min
Apr 25, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	57 min
Apr 25, 4:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 25, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Tarrant	37 min
Apr 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	34 min
Apr 25, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	65 min
Apr 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	67 min
Apr 25, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis	49 min
Apr 25, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	30 min
Apr 25, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	45 min
Apr 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	65 min
Apr 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Navarro	42 min
Apr 25, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	16 min
Apr 25, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	55 min
Apr 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	54 min
Apr 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.