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Tornado Warning 69, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 26, 2011McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2011, 8:35 PM CDT for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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 26, 2011, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County McLennan County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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.

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 PDS	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1466 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

901 
WFUS54 KFWD 270135
TORFWD
TXC309-270200-
/O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0069.110427T0135Z-110427T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
835 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN MCLENNAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 836 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRAWFORD...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MCGREGOR AROUND 850 PM CDT...
  MOODY AROUND 855 PM CDT...
  WOODWAY...HEWITT AND LORENA AROUND 900 PM CDT...

THIS WILL IMPACT I-35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 316 AND 327.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.

&&

LAT...LON 3131 9740 3136 9745 3159 9760 3170 9739
      3153 9726 3139 9708 3126 9733
TIME...MOT...LOC 0136Z 287DEG 33KT 3157 9749

$$


85/NH

1 follow-up statement

994 
WWUS54 KFWD 270145 RRA
SVSFWD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
845 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

TXC309-270200-
/O.CON.KFWD.TO.W.0069.000000T0000Z-110427T0200Z/
MCLENNAN TX-
845 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MCLENNAN COUNTY...

AT 846 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CRAWFORD...MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WOODWAY AROUND 855 PM CDT...
  HEWITT AROUND 900 PM CDT...

THIS WILL IMPACT I-35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 316 AND 327.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3131 9740 3136 9745 3159 9760 3170 9739
      3153 9726 3139 9708 3126 9733
TIME...MOT...LOC 0146Z 281DEG 35KT 3155 9738

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan, Navarro	67 min
Apr 26, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	49 min
Apr 26, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Navarro	48 min
Apr 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Hill, Limestone, Navarro	47 min
Apr 26, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	44 min
Apr 26, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon, Limestone	41 min
Apr 26, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	54 min
Apr 26, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	39 min
Apr 26, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	39 min
Apr 26, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, Limestone, McLennan	63 min
Apr 26, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	McLennan	43 min
Apr 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	36 min
Apr 26, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	46 min
Apr 26, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson	48 min
Apr 26, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	McLennan	48 min
Apr 26, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon	53 min
Apr 26, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Limestone	50 min
Apr 26, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls	40 min
Apr 26, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman	35 min
Apr 26, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	21 min
Apr 26, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon	42 min
Apr 26, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	54 min
Apr 26, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Rains	37 min
Apr 26, 9:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon, Limestone, Robertson	49 min
Apr 26, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	38 min
Apr 26, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	27 min
Apr 26, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	27 min
Apr 26, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	48 min
Apr 26, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	34 min
Apr 26, 10:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	49 min
Apr 26, 10:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Falls	26 min
Apr 26, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Limestone, Robertson	41 min
Apr 26, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	55 min
Apr 26, 11:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon	33 min
Apr 27, 4:20 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Denton and 20 more	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.