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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 14, 2008Lampasas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2008, 7:57 PM CDT for Lampasas County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports 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: May 14, 2008, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2008, 8:22 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lampasas County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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
May 14, 8:04 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 70	Lampasas, TX	BY AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
May 14, 8:25 PM CDT	TORNADO	19 N Burnet, TX	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN RIPPED TREES FROM THE GROUND AT 3707 CR 101

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
May 14, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 726 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 150058
TORFWD
TXC281-150145-
/O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0049.080515T0057Z-080515T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
757 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LAMPASAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 757 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
  TORNADOES WAS 6 MILES WEST OF LAMPASAS..MOVING EAST AT 42 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LAMPASAS AT 805 PM CDT

SPOTTERS REPORT A WALL CLOUD WITH RAPID ROTATION SOUTHWEST OF 
LAMPASAS.

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.

IN ADDITION TO TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3103 9838 3122 9841 3125 9803 3118 9797
      3112 9794 3109 9791 3107 9791 3105 9792
TIME...MOT...LOC 0057Z 275DEG 37KT 3103 9821

$$

25

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KFWD 150122
SVSFWD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
821 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008

TXC281-150131-
/O.CAN.KFWD.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080515T0145Z/
LAMPASAS TX-
821 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LAMPASAS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 821 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO 
WARNING HAS EXITED THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING WAS CANCELLED. 
HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
SOUTHEAST LAMPASAS COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. 

LAT...LON 3103 9838 3122 9841 3125 9803 3118 9797
      3112 9794 3109 9791 3107 9791 3105 9792
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 275DEG 37KT 3101 9792

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Eastland	42 min
May 14, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Lampasas	40 min
May 14, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	30 min
May 14, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	41 min
May 14, 7:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	37 min
May 14, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	30 min
May 14, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	62 min
May 14, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	39 min
May 14, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	28 min
May 14, 8:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Hamilton	51 min
May 14, 9:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 14, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	64 min
May 14, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton	28 min
May 14, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Milam	54 min
May 14, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	61 min
May 14, 10:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Johnson, Rockwall	64 min
May 14, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	54 min
May 14, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	48 min
May 14, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	56 min
May 14, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	43 min
May 15, 12:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone	2 hr
May 15, 12:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Robertson	115 min
May 15, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	23 min
May 15, 12:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	7 hr
May 15, 12:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Leon	3 hr
May 15, 2:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	30 hr
May 15, 1:18 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Milam	32 hr

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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.