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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1994, 6:59 PM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 12, 1994, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1994, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hermleigh, TX |
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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 tornado 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 12, 5:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
TXZ091>167-122315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 510 PM CDT THU MAY 12 1994 AT 505 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF PITTSBURG MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVED NORTHEAST INTO TITUS COUNTY. OTHER...SMALLER THUNDERSORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM TO NEAR MINEOLA. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, May 12, 5:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
TXZ091>167-122315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 510 PM CDT THU MAY 12 1994 AT 505 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF PITTSBURG MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVED NORTHEAST INTO TITUS COUNTY. OTHER...SMALLER THUNDERSORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM TO NEAR MINEOLA. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, May 12, 5:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
TXZ091>167-122315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 510 PM CDT THU MAY 12 1994 AT 505 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF PITTSBURG MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVED NORTHEAST INTO TITUS COUNTY. OTHER...SMALLER THUNDERSORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM TO NEAR MINEOLA. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 64 min |
| May 11, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jones | 66 min |
| May 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 62 min |
| May 12, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan | 58 min |
| May 12, 12:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 2 hr |
| May 12, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 3 hr |
| May 12, 1:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 3 hr |
| May 12, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche | 2 hr |
| May 12, 4:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 5 hr |
| May 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Morris, Titus | 50 min |
| May 12, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 61 min |
| May 12, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Scurry | 69 min |
| May 12, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mitchell | 56 min |
| May 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.