Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eastland County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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, May 10, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 10, 3:21 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
TXZ144-157-102130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 321 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BELL AND CORYELL COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 315 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KILLEEN IN BELL COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER BURNET COUNTY 5 MILES NORTH OF BURNET AND MILAM COUNTY 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMERON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER WESTERN COLEMAN COUNTY NORTHWEST OF COLEMAN. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. PERSONS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:21 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
TXZ144-157-102130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 321 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BELL AND CORYELL COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 315 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KILLEEN IN BELL COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER BURNET COUNTY 5 MILES NORTH OF BURNET AND MILAM COUNTY 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMERON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER WESTERN COLEMAN COUNTY NORTHWEST OF COLEMAN. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. PERSONS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:30 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
TXZ091>167-102200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN QUARTER OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM... AT 325 PM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM WESTERN YOUNG COUNTY...SOUTHWARD TO WEST OF BRECKENRIDGE...AND CONTINUING INTO WESTERN EASTLAND COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE COLEMAN...CALLAHAN COUNTY LINE AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF EASTLAND...STEPHENS...AND COMANCHE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY...POSSIBLY FLOODING RAINS WITHIN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. THE TORNADO WATCH IS VALID FOR THOSE AREAS TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF A BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS...HAMILTON LINE. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF MINERAL WELLS...STEPHENVILLE...BRECKENRIDGE...AND EASTLAND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST ON THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:33 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
TXZ091>167-102200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN QUARTER OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM... AT 325 PM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM WESTERN YOUNG COUNTY...SOUTHWARD TO WEST OF BRECKENRIDGE...AND CONTINUING INTO WESTERN EASTLAND COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE COLEMAN...CALLAHAN COUNTY LINE AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF EASTLAND...STEPHENS...AND COMANCHE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY...POSSIBLY FLOODING RAINS WITHIN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. THE TORNADO WATCH IS VALID FOR THOSE AREAS TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF A BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS...HAMILTON LINE. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF MINERAL WELLS...STEPHENVILLE...BRECKENRIDGE...AND EASTLAND. V STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST ON THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mitchell | 55 min |
| May 10, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan | 58 min |
| May 10, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan, Taylor | 58 min |
| May 10, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 44 min |
| May 10, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 26 min |
| May 10, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 66 min |
| May 10, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.