Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1994, 11:01 PM CDT for Hood County, Somervell County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1994, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hood County, TX, Somervell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157-162-175-270005 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 605 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR PERSONS IN BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTY OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 555 PM CDT WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM STEPHENVILLE TO COMANCHE TO 10 MILES NORTH OF HAMILTON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO DEVELOP SOUTHWARD AND PERSONS IN IREDELL OF NORTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY COULD EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE IN AROUND 630 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ091-167-270245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 848 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...STRONG WINDS MOVING THROUGH THE METROPLEX... STRONG WINDS WITH GUSTS EXCEEDING 50 MPH HAVE BEEN OBSERVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NORTH FORT WORTH. THESE WINDS ARE SWEEPING WEST AND WILL AFFECT THE METROPLEX BETWEEN 845 PM AND 930 PM. THESE WINDS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ091>167-270245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED COUNTY CODING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 848 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...STRONG WINDS MOVING THROUGH THE METROPLEX... STRONG WINDS WITH GUSTS EXCEEDING 50 MPH HAVE BEEN OBSERVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NORTH FORT WORTH. THESE WINDS ARE SWEEPING WEST AND WILL AFFECT THE METROPLEX BETWEEN 845 PM AND 930 PM. THESE WINDS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH A SEVERE THUNDJERSTORM.
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 10:10 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
TXZ091>167-270415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1009 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...OUTFLOW WINDS MOVE THROUGH THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX... STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...SOMETIMES GUSTING TO ABOVE 35 MPH...CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE METROPLEX UNTIL 1100 PM. THESE WINDS ARE THE OUTFLOW FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF ERATH...BOSQUE...SOMERVELL..HOOD...AND PALO PINTO COUNTIES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA. WHILE THESE WINDS ARE NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO THUNDERSTORMS...THE HIGHEST GUSTS MAY KNOCK DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS. IN ADDITION... DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE GUSTY WINDS. THESE WINDS ARE EXPErCTED TO DIMINISH BY 1100 PM.
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 10:22 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 69 min |
| Apr 26, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Somervell | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Fannin, Grayson | 69 min |
| Apr 26, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar, Red River | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Red River | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 59 min |
| Apr 26, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 61 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.