Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 522, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 3, 1994, 4:40 PM CST for Kaufman County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 3, 1994, 4:40 PM CST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 1994, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kaufman County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1716 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 11.0
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, Nov 3, 2:18 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ091-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 218 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 TEST...TEST...TEST...THIS IS A TEST!
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 2:24 PM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ091-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 218 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 TEST...TEST...TEST...THIS IS A TEST!
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 2:25 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ091-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 218 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 TEST...TEST...TEST...THIS IS A TEST!
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 3:33 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 333 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 330 PM CST WACO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAING HEAVY RAIN FROM WACO TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOODY. A THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO NOTED NEAR CALVERT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG WINDS... AND HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 3:34 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 333 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 330 PM CST WACO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAING HEAVY RAIN FROM WACO TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOODY. A THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO NOTED NEAR CALVERT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS..d.STRONG WINDS... AND HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 4:40 PM CST, 0 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 440 PM CST THU NOV 3 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LEON AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CST... AT 435 PM CST WACO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN GENERALLY EAST OF A DALLAS TO COLLEGE STATION LINE. ELSEWHERE...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED TO THE EAST OF BELLMEAD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG WINDS... AND HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton | 54 min |
| Nov 3, 12:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 20 min |
| Nov 3, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson | 30 min |
| Nov 3, 2:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 47 min |
| Nov 3, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 59 min |
| Nov 3, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Rockwall | 65 min |
| Nov 3, 4:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hunt | 44 min |
| Nov 3, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 62 min |
| Nov 3, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.