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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 13, 1994Johnson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1994, 3:42 AM CDT for Johnson County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1994, 3:42 AM CDT (08:42 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1994, 4:30 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Johnson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1143 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.4

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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 13, 1:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 13, 2:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher56 min
May 12, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFisher48 min
May 12, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan59 min
May 12, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell, Jones, Stonewall60 min
May 12, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Palo Pinto65 min
May 12, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise56 min
May 12, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack59 min
May 12, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Denton69 min
May 13, 1:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton111 min
May 13, 1:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEastland4 hr
May 13, 1:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton71 min
May 13, 1:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche4 hr
May 13, 1:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker3 hr
May 13, 2:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise3 hr
May 13, 2:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDErath, Hamilton3 hr
May 13, 2:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto3 hr
May 13, 2:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Johnson, Somervell, Tarrant3 hr
May 13, 2:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack3 hr
May 13, 2:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton3 hr
May 13, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan68 min
May 13, 5:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Wise3 hr
May 13, 5:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDErath, Hamilton3 hr
May 13, 12:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell56 min
May 13, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur60 min
May 13, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCherokee, Smith65 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.