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Tornado Warning 86, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 6:56 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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 24, 2011, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 24, 7:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 N Springtown, TX | |
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | 2 N Springtown, TX | BASEBALL SIZE HAIL NORTH OF SPRINGTOWN. |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | TORNADO 0 | 3 N Rhome, TX |
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 24, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 2105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
118
WFUS54 KFWD 242356
TORFWD
TXC497-250045-
/O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0086.110524T2356Z-110525T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
656 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WISE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 656 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF BOONSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45
MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
COTTONDALE AND BRIDGEPORT AROUND 705 PM CDT...
ALVORD AROUND 715 PM CDT...
BOYD...AURORA AND DECATUR AROUND 720 PM CDT...
RHOME AROUND 725 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.
&&
LAT...LON 3343 9739 3299 9740 3299 9743 3300 9745
3300 9792 3314 9792 3336 9774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 259DEG 38KT 3304 9783
$$
CAVANAUGH1 follow-up statement
207
WWUS54 KFWD 250021
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
721 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
TXC497-250045-
/O.CON.KFWD.TO.W.0086.000000T0000Z-110525T0045Z/
WISE TX-
721 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR WISE
COUNTY...
AT 719 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
MONITORING A TORNADIC SUPERCELL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. THE POTENTIALLY TORNADIC CIRCULATION WAS
LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF BOYD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
IF A TORNADO FORMS...IT WOULD BE NEAR...
BOYD AROUND 725 PM CDT...
AURORA AROUND 730 PM CDT...
RHOME AROUND 735 PM CDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DO NOT LEAVE SHELTER TO USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE
EASILY TOSSED AND CRUSHED BY TORNADO WINDS.
&&
LAT...LON 3343 9739 3299 9740 3299 9743 3300 9745
3300 9792 3314 9792 3336 9774
TIME...MOT...LOC 0019Z 260DEG 26KT 3308 9760
$$
25The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 56 min |
| May 24, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Palo Pinto, Stephens | 61 min |
| May 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Wise | 46 min |
| May 24, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 53 min |
| May 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 55 min |
| May 24, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 67 min |
| May 24, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 40 min |
| May 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague, Wise | 54 min |
| May 24, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker | 59 min |
| May 24, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 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.