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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2011, 5:42 PM CDT for Jack County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 22, 2011, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2011, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jack County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 22, 6:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Jacksboro, TX | 60 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED IN JACKSBORO. |
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 22, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 3761 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 16.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
759 WFUS54 KFWD 222242 TORFWD TXC237-497-222330- /O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0082.110522T2242Z-110522T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 542 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL JACK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... WESTERN WISE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF JACKSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CHICO...LAKE BRIDGEPORT AND RUNAWAY BAY AROUND 630 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3339 9769 3310 9772 3323 9823 3344 9816 TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 278DEG 12KT 3330 9811 $$ DUNN
1 follow-up statement
611 WWUS54 KFWD 222258 SVSFWD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 558 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011 TXC237-497-222330- /O.CON.KFWD.TO.W.0082.000000T0000Z-110522T2330Z/ JACK TX-WISE TX- 558 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR WESTERN WISE AND EAST CENTRAL JACK COUNTIES... AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ALVORD...BRIDGEPORT...CHICO... JACKSBORO...LAKE BRIDGEPORT AND RUNAWAY BAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANYTIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. IF POSSIBLE... MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER. OTHERWISE... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3343 9811 3339 9769 3310 9772 3322 9818 TIME...MOT...LOC 2258Z 278DEG 12KT 3329 9805 $$ WR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 42 min |
| May 21, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton, Mills | 32 min |
| May 21, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 46 min |
| May 21, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 62 min |
| May 21, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 54 min |
| May 21, 10:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 23 min |
| May 21, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 44 min |
| May 21, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 46 min |
| May 21, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 64 min |
| May 22, 1:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 113 min |
| May 22, 1:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Coryell | 2 hr |
| May 22, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 64 min |
| May 22, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 53 min |
| May 22, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 63 min |
| May 22, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 58 min |
| May 22, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 54 min |
| May 22, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 58 min |
| May 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 66 min |
| May 22, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 49 min |
| May 22, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 56 min |
| May 22, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 67 min |
| May 22, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack, Wise | 50 min |
| May 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 66 min |
| May 22, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 64 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.