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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 26, 1994Coryell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1994, 5:19 PM CDT for Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 26, 1994, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Coryell County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Copperas Cove, TX	A brief tornado was reported between Copperas Cove and Killeen on Highway 190 by a storm chaser.

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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 253 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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.

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 26, 1:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 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 25, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan	55 min
May 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan	30 min
May 25, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Callahan	30 min
May 25, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	68 min
May 25, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan	30 min
May 25, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	60 min
May 25, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	66 min
May 25, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	60 min
May 25, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Brown	32 min
May 25, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	64 min
May 25, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	67 min
May 25, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	60 min
May 26, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	67 min
May 26, 1:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Taylor	2 hr
May 26, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	55 min
May 26, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	50 min
May 26, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	30 min
May 26, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	57 min
May 26, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	64 min
May 26, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	60 min
May 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	35 min
May 26, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	30 min
May 26, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	62 min
May 26, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	67 min
May 26, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	29 min
May 26, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	62 min
May 26, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	57 min
May 26, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	56 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.