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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 14, 1994Hill County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1994, 5:06 PM CDT for Hill County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1994, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hill County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 14, 6:15 PM CDTTornado F0Osceola, TXA brief tornado touchdown was reported.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 12:00Z on 1994-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1994-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque57 min
May 14, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell68 min
May 14, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Cherokee65 min
May 14, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis61 min
May 14, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin58 min
May 14, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCherokee66 min
May 14, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.