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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 25, 1994Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Taylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 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 25, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

TXC103-104-118-119-252330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
540 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER NORTH TARRANT
COUNTY LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER KELLER AND WATAUGAAT 535 PM.
THEY WILL LIKELY MOVE EAST AROUND 20 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LATER WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.

Special weather statement, May 25, 5:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

TXC103-104-118-119-252330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
540 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER NORTH TARRANT
COUNTY LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER KELLER AND WATAUGAAT 535 PM.
THEY WILL LIKELY MOVE EAST AROUND 20 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LATER WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.

Special weather statement, May 25, 6:00 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 6:04 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	65 min
May 24, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Throckmorton	56 min
May 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	45 min
May 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	30 min
May 25, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Scurry	55 min
May 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mitchell	60 min
May 25, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Nolan	69 min
May 25, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	57 min
May 25, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Stonewall	39 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.