Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2007, 5:42 PM CDT for Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2007, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2007, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Limestone County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:05 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Coolidge, TX | TREES DOWN AND GARAGE DOOR BUCKLED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 30, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KFWD 302243
TORFWD
TXC293-302345-
/O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0009.070330T2242Z-070330T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
542 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 542 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVED A TORNADO
23 MILES WEST OF FORT PARKER STATE PARK...OR NEAR RIESEL IN
SOUTHEAST MCLENNAN COUNTY...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
COOLIDGE AND FORT PARKER STATE PARK BY 635 PM CDT...
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.
THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO MAY BE OBSCURED BY RAIN. IF YOU WAIT UNTIL
THE TORNADO IS VISIBLE BEFORE TAKING COVER IT WILL BE TOO LATE
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3159 9684 3161 9686 3164 9688 3180 9670
3176 9662 3160 9648 3159 9656 3157 9662
3151 9678
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KFWD 302336
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
636 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007
TXC293-302346-
/O.EXP.KFWD.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070330T2335Z/
LIMESTONE TX-
636 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY EXPIRES AT
635 PM CDT...
AT 636 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO
WARNING WEAKENED AND MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY. THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
EXPIRED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3159 9684 3161 9686 3164 9688 3180 9670
3176 9662 3160 9648 3159 9656 3157 9662
3151 9678
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 53 min |
| Mar 29, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone, Navarro | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 8:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 9:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 36 min |
| Mar 29, 9:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 9:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 10:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 10:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 10:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 10:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 11:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 12:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Lampasas, McLennan | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 12:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 12:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 1:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 1:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 1:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 1:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 2:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 3:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Lampasas | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 3:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Montague | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 62 min |
| Mar 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Parker, Wise | 62 min |
| Mar 30, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 62 min |
| Mar 30, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton, Montague | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 5:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 5:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 6:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Rockwall and 1 more | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 6:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 65 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.