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Tornado Warning 75, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1994, 7:36 PM CDT for Callahan County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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 29, 1994, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1994, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Callahan County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Cottonwood To, TX | A tornado touched down near Cottonwood and moved southeast through Cross Plains doing heavy damage. Eighteen homes were destroyed and one hundred were damaged. Ninety percent of the businesses in town were damaged. |
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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2844 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 13.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABI 300036 TORABI TXC059-300115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 736 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN CALLAHAN COUNTY STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO AT COTTONWOOD IN SOUTHEAST CALLAHAN COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH INTO BROWN COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. &
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 29, 4:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
TXZ091>167-292300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 455 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY WEST OF A DENINSON...DALLAS...TEMPLE LINE. AT 455 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY FROM NEAR WICHITA FALLS SOUTHWESTWARD TO NORTHWESTERN YOUNG COUNTY AND CONTINUING INTO SOUTHERN HASKELL COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO NORTHERN JACK AND YOUNG COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED SHORTLY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV...FOR LATER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, May 29, 5:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-292345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 540 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE... HILL...CORYELL AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR FALLS AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS...LEON COUNTY OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND ROBERTSON AND MILAM COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 532 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ABILENE ...TO NEAR RANGER TO 25 MILES NORTH OF MINERAL WELLS. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM WEST OF MASON INTO THE SAN ANGELO AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS REPORTED LAST HOUR IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HAD MOVED INTO FAR SOUHTEAST TEXAS. < ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY OVER THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA... RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORPMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. 07
Special weather statement, May 29, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-292345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 540 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE... HILL...CORYELL AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR FALLS AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS...LEON COUNTY OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND ROBERTSON AND MILAM COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 532 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ABILENE ...TO NEAR RANGER TO 25 MILES NORTH OF MINERAL WELLS. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM WEST OF MASON INTO THE SAN ANGELO AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS REPORTED LAST HOUR IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HAD MOVED INTO FAR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. < ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY OVER THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA... RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. 07
Special weather statement, May 29, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-292345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 540 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE... HILL...CORYELL AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR FALLS AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS...LEON COUNTY OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND ROBERTSON AND MILAM COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 532 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ABILENE ...TO NEAR RANGER TO 25 MILES NORTH OF MINERAL WELLS. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM WEST OF MASON INTO THE SAN ANGELO AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS REPORTED LAST HOUR IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HAD MOVED INTO FAR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. < ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY OVER THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA... RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. 07
Special weather statement, May 29, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-300040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 635 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE... HILL...CORYELL AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FALLS...LIMESTONE...LEON... ROBERTSON AND MILAM COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 632 PM CDT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHEST OF WICHITA FALLS TO NORTHEAST OF ABILENE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. < ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY OVER THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA... RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 29, 6:36 PM CDT, 1 hour before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-300040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 635 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE... HILL...CORYELL AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FALLS...LIMESTONE...LEON... ROBERTSON AND MILAM COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 632 PM CDT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHEST OF WICHITA FALLS TO NORTHEAST OF ABILENE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. < ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY OVER THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA... RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 49 min |
| May 29, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland, Palo Pinto | 62 min |
| May 29, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 68 min |
| May 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 65 min |
| May 29, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 61 min |
| May 29, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown | 49 min |
| May 29, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stephens | 46 min |
| May 29, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 57 min |
| May 29, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 63 min |
| May 29, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 61 min |
| May 29, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 43 min |
| May 29, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 34 min |
| May 29, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 64 min |
| May 29, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown, Callahan, Coleman | 54 min |
| May 29, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 49 min |
| May 29, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 66 min |
| May 29, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 64 min |
| May 29, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 68 min |
| May 29, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 44 min |
| May 29, 9:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 61 min |
| May 29, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 61 min |
| May 29, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 56 min |
| May 29, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 63 min |
| May 29, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 60 min |
| May 29, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 60 min |
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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.