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Tornado Warning 80, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1994, 8:41 PM CDT for Hill County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1994, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hill County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 KACT 300142 TORACT TXC217-300245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 841 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WACO TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...HILL COUNTY AT 835 PM CDT A POSSIBLE DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 10 MILES NORTH OF HILLSBORO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, 5:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute 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, 3 hours 1 minute 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, 2 hours 6 minutes 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, 2 hours 5 minutes 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, 7:43 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157-158-159-300145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 743 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE... CORYELL...HILL AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 734 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO NORTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY NORTH OF WALNUT SPRINGS. ELSEWHERE...VERY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NORTHWEST OF SAN SABA TO NORTHWEST OF COMANCHE TO WEST OF MINERAL WELLS. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. RESIDENTS OF BOSQUE COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 29, 7:44 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157-158-159-300145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 743 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE... CORYELL...HILL AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 734 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO NORTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY NORTH OF WALNUT SPRINGS. ELSEWHERE...VERY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NORTHWEST OF SAN SABA TO NORTHWEST OF COMANCHE TO WEST OF MINERAL WELLS. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. RESIDENTS OF BOSQUE COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
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, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Callahan | 39 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, 8:52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.