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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 24, 2024Cooke County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2024, 5:49 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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: May 24, 2024, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2024, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.5 in

County Cooke County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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 24, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 2205 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 May 24, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 3:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 4:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 4:50 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 4:57 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 5:14 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 5:48 PM CDT, 1 minute 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
May 23, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Leon, Limestone, Robertson	46 min
May 23, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	42 min
May 23, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon	14 min
May 23, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	64 min
May 23, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	58 min
May 23, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	66 min
May 23, 11:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Grayson	118 min
May 23, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	69 min
May 24, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	49 min
May 24, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt	62 min
May 24, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	49 min
May 24, 3:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	49 min
May 24, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	63 min
May 24, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	44 min
May 24, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, Johnson	59 min
May 24, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	60 min
May 24, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	42 min
May 24, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	38 min
May 24, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Rockwall	48 min
May 24, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	57 min
May 24, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Parker	56 min
May 24, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	59 min
May 24, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	71 min
May 24, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	54 min
May 24, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	63 min
May 24, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	64 min
May 24, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	56 min
May 24, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	33 min
May 24, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	30 min
May 24, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Somervell	16 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.