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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 2023, 9:42 PM CDT for Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 2023, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2023, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.25 in
Counties Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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 4, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson | 46 min |
| Oct 4, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 59 min |
| Oct 4, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 53 min |
| Oct 4, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 4 hr |
| Oct 4, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise | 55 min |
| Oct 4, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton | 65 min |
| Oct 4, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 30 min |
| Oct 4, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 49 min |
| Oct 4, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains | 56 min |
| Oct 4, 9:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Rockwall | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant | 63 min |
| Oct 4, 9:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 4 hr |
| Oct 4, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Rains | 61 min |
| Oct 4, 9:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Navarro | 62 min |
| Oct 4, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro | 61 min |
| Oct 4, 10:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Limestone, Navarro | 64 min |
| Oct 4, 11:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Kaufman | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 11:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 2 hr |
| Oct 4, 11:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 36 min |
| Oct 4, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Oct 4, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Van Zandt | 34 min |
| Oct 4, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro | 38 min |
| Oct 4, 11:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls, Freestone, Limestone, McLennan | 50 min |
| Oct 5, 12:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 45 min |
| Oct 5, 1:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 47 min |
| Oct 5, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 25 min |
| Oct 5, 1:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson | 106 min |
| Oct 5, 2:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Leon | 44 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.