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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 25, 1994Brown County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1994, 9:13 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 25, 1994, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 25, 9:30 PM CDTTornado F0Early, TXA tornado heavily damaged a building on Highway 377.

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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 1994-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1920 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1994-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1920 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.7

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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, 3 hours 33 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, 3 hours 32 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, 3 hours 13 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 25, 8:45 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan55 min
May 25, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan30 min
May 25, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCallahan30 min
May 25, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman68 min
May 25, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan30 min
May 25, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland60 min
May 25, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman66 min
May 25, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown60 min
May 25, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague64 min
May 25, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown67 min
May 25, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague60 min
May 26, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor67 min
May 26, 1:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTaylor2 hr
May 26, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker55 min
May 26, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant50 min
May 26, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas30 min
May 26, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman57 min
May 26, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown64 min
May 26, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche60 min
May 26, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Erath35 min
May 26, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton30 min
May 26, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque62 min
May 26, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill67 min
May 26, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCoryell56 min
May 26, 5:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell29 min
May 26, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone62 min
May 26, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell57 min
May 26, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown56 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1994Every tornado warning in 1994Tornadoes 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.