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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2011, 4:13 PM CDT for Henderson County, Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 26, 2011, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2011, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Henderson County, TX, Navarro County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 4:57 PM CDT | TORNADO | Seven Points, TX | TORNADO ON CEDAR CREEK LAKE. NEAR SEVEN POINTS. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
055
WFUS54 KFWD 262113
TORFWD
TXC213-349-262200-
/O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0043.110426T2113Z-110426T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
413 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL NAVARRO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN HENDERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 413 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES WEST OF SEVEN POINTS...MOVING EAST AT
40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SEVEN POINTS AROUND 435 PM CDT...
GUN BARREL CITY AND TOOL AROUND 440 PM CDT...
PAYNE SPRINGS AND ENCHANTED OAKS AROUND 445 PM CDT...
EUSTACE AROUND 450 PM CDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR BATHROOM...CLOSET...OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR A
MATTRESS FOR PROTECTION.
IN ADDITION TO TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3222 9608 3225 9651 3227 9651 3233 9640
3234 9641 3235 9644 3237 9636 3236 9604
3228 9600
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 261DEG 36KT 3232 9648
$$
921 follow-up statement
953
WWUS54 KFWD 262135
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
435 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011
TXC213-349-262200-
/O.CON.KFWD.TO.W.0043.000000T0000Z-110426T2200Z/
HENDERSON TX-NAVARRO TX-
435 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL NAVARRO AND NORTHWESTERN HENDERSON COUNTIES...
AT 435 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF SEVEN
POINTS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SEVEN POINTS AROUND 440 PM CDT...
TOOL AROUND 445 PM CDT...
GUN BARREL CITY AND ENCHANTED OAKS AROUND 450 PM CDT...
PAYNE SPRINGS AROUND 455 PM CDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES FOR A STORM SHELTER OR PERMANENT BUILDING. IF
NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3222 9608 3224 9632 3228 9648 3233 9640
3235 9644 3237 9637 3237 9622 3236 9604
3228 9600
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 266DEG 30KT 3232 9628
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon | 49 min |
| Apr 25, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 58 min |
| Apr 25, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone | 19 min |
| Apr 25, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Anderson | 52 min |
| Apr 25, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 39 min |
| Apr 25, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 8:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Leon | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 9:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone | 24 min |
| Apr 25, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 31 min |
| Apr 25, 9:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Leon | 32 min |
| Apr 25, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 23 min |
| Apr 26, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Robertson | 27 min |
| Apr 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon | 23 min |
| Apr 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Navarro | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Rockwall | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Lamar | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill, Navarro | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 59 min |
| Apr 26, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill, Limestone, McLennan | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Navarro | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone, McLennan | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Fannin, Lamar | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 21 min |
| Apr 26, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 46 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.