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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 26, 2024Rains County, Van Zandt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2024, 6:05 PM CDT for Rains County, Van Zandt 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2024, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2024, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Rains County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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
Apr 26, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 1752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 344 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 430 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 17.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Apr 26, 2:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 2:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 3:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 26, 4:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:08 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:26 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:30 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 5:56 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 4:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	52 min
Apr 26, 9:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Somervell	20 min
Apr 26, 10:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	41 min
Apr 26, 10:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	67 min
Apr 26, 10:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	46 min
Apr 26, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton	27 min
Apr 26, 11:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Coryell, McLennan	52 min
Apr 26, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant	44 min
Apr 26, 12:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	41 min
Apr 26, 12:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan	38 min
Apr 26, 1:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Hill, Navarro	51 min
Apr 26, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	55 min
Apr 26, 1:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill	43 min
Apr 26, 1:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	38 min
Apr 26, 2:24 PM CDT	Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bosque, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 30 more	53 hr
Apr 26, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman	14 min
Apr 26, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill	44 min
Apr 26, 3:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Navarro	3 hr
Apr 26, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Navarro	56 min
Apr 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Kaufman	4 hr
Apr 26, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	41 min
Apr 26, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	40 min
Apr 26, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Henderson, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	61 min
Apr 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	37 min
Apr 26, 4:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	3 hr
Apr 26, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	27 min
Apr 26, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	34 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.