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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 25, 2012Falls County, Robertson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 25, 2012, 6:06 AM CST for Falls County, Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: Jan 25, 2012, 6:06 AM CST (12:06 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 2012, 6:30 AM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Falls County, TX, Robertson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:08 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
Jan 25, 3:17 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 326 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 484 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

170 
WFUS54 KFWD 251206
TORFWD
TXC145-395-251230-
/O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0001.120125T1206Z-120125T1230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
606 AM CST WED JAN 25 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FALLS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  WEST CENTRAL ROBERTSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 630 AM CST

* AT 606 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTH OF MARLIN...MOVING NORTH AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MARLIN AROUND 630 AM CST...

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 3103 9678 3105 9676 3106 9682 3108 9681
      3111 9683 3108 9691 3136 9698 3139 9671
      3102 9669 3101 9677
TIME...MOT...LOC 1206Z 175DEG 31KT 3110 9680

$$
42/MM

1 follow-up statement

566 
WWUS54 KFWD 251226
SVSFWD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
626 AM CST WED JAN 25 2012

TXC145-395-251236-
/O.EXP.KFWD.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120125T1230Z/
FALLS TX-ROBERTSON TX-
626 AM CST WED JAN 25 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL ROBERTSON AND EASTERN FALLS
COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 630 AM CST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST WEDNESDAY 
MORNING.

LAT...LON 3103 9678 3105 9676 3106 9682 3108 9681
      3111 9683 3108 9691 3136 9698 3139 9671
      3102 9669 3101 9677
TIME...MOT...LOC 1226Z 175DEG 31KT 3127 9682

$$
42/MM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 6:14 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	31 min
Jan 24, 7:32 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	50 hr
Jan 24, 7:32 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	56 hr
Jan 24, 7:52 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	57 hr
Jan 24, 7:52 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	48 hr
Jan 24, 8:21 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Grayson, Rockwall	75 days
Jan 24, 8:49 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Erath	116 min
Jan 24, 9:30 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	18 hr
Jan 24, 9:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 37 more	14 hr
Jan 24, 10:02 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	3 hr
Jan 24, 10:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	3 hr
Jan 24, 10:07 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton	3 hr
Jan 24, 11:18 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	3 hr
Jan 25, 12:40 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Parker	18 hr
Jan 25, 12:44 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Jan 25, 12:55 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	72 hr
Jan 25, 12:56 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Hood	3 hr
Jan 25, 1:00 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:25 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:28 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:29 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	McLennan	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:32 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Erath, Palo Pinto, Parker	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:37 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:57 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Jan 25, 4:00 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Hood, Johnson and 1 more	3 hr
Jan 25, 4:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	41 min
Jan 25, 6:02 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hill and 7 more	6 hr
Jan 25, 7:08 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	12 hr
Jan 25, 7:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	28 min
Jan 25, 7:43 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	4 hr
Jan 25, 7:54 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Tarrant	3 hr
Jan 25, 8:04 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Kaufman, Leon, Limestone and 2 more	6 hr
Jan 25, 8:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	58 min
Jan 25, 8:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	33 min
Jan 25, 8:35 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Grayson	4 hr
Jan 25, 9:05 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	25 min
Jan 25, 9:06 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	63 hr
Jan 25, 9:06 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	11 hr
Jan 25, 9:06 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	3 days
Jan 25, 9:06 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	7 days
Jan 25, 9:39 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	11 hr
Jan 25, 10:24 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	20 hr
Jan 25, 10:57 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas	3 hr
Jan 25, 1:27 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	30 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.