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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2013, 8:32 PM CDT for Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- May 15, 2013, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2013, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| May 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 1604 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 20.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
902 WFUS54 KFWD 160132 TORFWD TXC113-439-160215- /O.NEW.KFWD.TO.W.0013.130516T0132Z-130516T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 832 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN DALLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... EAST CENTRAL TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF ARLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GRAND PRAIRIE AROUND 850 PM CDT... CEDAR HILL STATE PARK AND CEDAR HILL AROUND 855 PM CDT... DUNCANVILLE AROUND 910 PM CDT... COCKRELL HILL AND DESOTO AROUND 915 PM CDT... THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES... I-35E BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 412 AND 414... I-20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 438 AND 457... I-30 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 16 AND 34... I-820 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 25 AND 35. 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 3255 9681 3260 9718 3276 9718 3281 9687 TIME...MOT...LOC 0132Z 255DEG 16KT 3263 9711 $$ CAVANAUGH
2 follow-up statements
978
WWUS54 KFWD 160150
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
850 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
TXC113-439-160215-
/O.CON.KFWD.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130516T0215Z/
DALLAS TX-TARRANT TX-
850 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL TARRANT AND WEST CENTRAL DALLAS COUNTIES...
AT 850 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED NEAR GRAND PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
DUNCANVILLE AROUND 900 PM CDT...
COCKRELL HILL AROUND 910 PM CDT...
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...
I-30 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 20 AND 34...
I-820 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 25 AND 33.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR BATHROOM...CLOSET...OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR A
MATTRESS FOR PROTECTION.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3263 9683 3264 9711 3276 9713 3278 9706
3281 9687
TIME...MOT...LOC 0150Z 243DEG 22KT 3269 9702
$$
CAVANAUGH264
WWUS54 KFWD 160200
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
900 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
TXC439-160210-
/O.CAN.KFWD.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130516T0215Z/
TARRANT TX-
900 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL TARRANT COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED EAST INTO DALLAS
COUNTY...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...
I-30 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 20 AND 23...
I-820 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 25 AND 33.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3263 9683 3264 9704 3278 9704 3278 9703
3281 9687
TIME...MOT...LOC 0200Z 231DEG 13KT 3270 9700
$$
TXC113-160215-
/O.CON.KFWD.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130516T0215Z/
DALLAS TX-
900 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL DALLAS COUNTY...
AT 900 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED NEAR GRAND PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
DUNCANVILLE AROUND 905 PM CDT...
COCKRELL HILL AROUND 915 PM CDT...
THIS WILL IMPACT I-30 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 24 AND 34.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR BATHROOM...CLOSET...OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR A
MATTRESS FOR PROTECTION.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3263 9683 3264 9704 3278 9704 3278 9703
3281 9687
TIME...MOT...LOC 0200Z 231DEG 13KT 3270 9700
$$
CAVANAUGHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 52 min |
| May 15, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 47 min |
| May 15, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 62 min |
| May 15, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Parker, Wise | 51 min |
| May 15, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hood | 50 min |
| May 15, 7:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 2 hr |
| May 15, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 61 min |
| May 15, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 64 min |
| May 15, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson | 62 min |
| May 15, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 61 min |
| May 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 44 min |
| May 15, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson, Parker, Tarrant | 40 min |
| May 15, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson | 52 min |
| May 15, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Wise | 62 min |
| May 15, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 38 min |
| May 15, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 48 min |
| May 15, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 54 min |
| May 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 45 min |
| May 15, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 66 min |
| May 15, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson | 47 min |
| May 15, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 44 min |
| May 15, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 58 min |
| May 15, 9:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Comanche | 25 min |
| May 15, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 62 min |
| May 15, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson | 22 min |
| May 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas | 45 min |
| May 15, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 67 min |
| May 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 61 min |
| May 15, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 45 min |
| May 15, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 23 min |
| May 15, 9:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Denton, Wise | 3 hr |
| May 15, 10:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 15, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 59 min |
| May 15, 10:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hood | 23 min |
| May 15, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 36 min |
| May 15, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 113 min |
| May 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 35 min |
| May 15, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Mills | 62 min |
| May 15, 10:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Somervell | 37 min |
| May 15, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 64 min |
| May 15, 10:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 32 min |
| May 15, 10:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas, Rockwall | 115 min |
| May 15, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 66 min |
| May 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 50 min |
| May 15, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 58 min |
| May 15, 11:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 15 hr |
| May 15, 11:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 33 min |
| May 15, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Navarro | 44 min |
| May 16, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro | 52 min |
| May 16, 12:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman, Navarro | 32 min |
| May 16, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 49 min |
| May 16, 12:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 35 min |
| May 16, 12:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 34 min |
| May 16, 1:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
| May 16, 1:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 64 min |
| May 16, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam | 31 min |
| May 16, 3:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam | 25 min |
| May 16, 3:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Robertson | 27 min |
| May 16, 7:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 30 min |
| May 16, 7:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 32 min |
| May 16, 7:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 23 min |
| May 16, 8:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Grayson | 56 min |
| May 16, 8:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 23 min |
| May 16, 9:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Fannin | 3 hr |
| May 16, 10:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 32 min |
| May 16, 11:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 116 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.