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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2012, 6:20 PM CDT for Montague 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
- Oct 13, 2012, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2012, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
045 WFUS54 KFWD 132320 TORFWD TXC337-132345- /O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0023.121013T2320Z-121013T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 620 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL MONTAGUE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 620 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF ST. JO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ST. JO AROUND 625 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 3365 9749 3363 9771 3373 9776 3388 9749 TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 242DEG 41KT 3371 9764 $$ CAVANAUGH
1 follow-up statement
775 WWUS54 KFWD 132341 SVSFWD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 641 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012 TXC337-132351- /O.EXP.KFWD.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-121013T2345Z/ MONTAGUE TX- 641 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL MONTAGUE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 645 PM CDT... AT 641 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND ALSO EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM ACROSS MONTAGUE COUNTY. LAT...LON 3365 9749 3363 9771 3373 9776 3388 9749 TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 242DEG 41KT 3382 9738 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 4:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam | 34 min |
| Oct 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 54 min |
| Oct 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 61 min |
| Oct 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 53 min |
| Oct 13, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 38 min |
Nearby
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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.