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Tornado Warning 81, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 21, 1994Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 21, 1994, 4:10 PM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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
Oct 21, 1994, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
Oct 21, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Dallas County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 21, 4:50 PM CDTTornado F0Lancaster, TXA brief tornado touchdown took shingles off a house and damaged trees.
Oct 21, 5:12 PM CDTTornado F0Lancaster, TXA brief tornado touchdown occurred.,,, , ,

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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-10-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1590 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.4
Supercell composite
9.9

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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, Oct 21, 1:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 21, 2:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ144-145-212130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
255 PM CDT FRI OCT 21 1994

... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...BELL...
MCLENNAN...FALLS...LIMESTONE...LEON...AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES UNTIL
8 PM CDT...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES THROUGH
TODAY...

AT 250 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS
THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR QUINLAN THROUGH DALLAS AND TO EAST OF STEPHENVILLE.
THE STROGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR DALLAS.  ELSEWHERE...AN AREA
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY EAST OF A CAYUGA...TEAGUE...
THORNTON LINE.

THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER OR HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 3:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
TXZ144-145-212130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
255 PM CDT FRI OCT 21 1994

... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...BELL...
MCLENNAN...FALLS...LIMESTONE...LEON...AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES UNTIL
8 PM CDT...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES THROUGH
TODAY...

AT 250 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS
THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR QUINLAN THROUGH DALLAS AND TO EAST OF STEPHENVILLE.
THE STROGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR DALLAS.  ELSEWHERE...AN AREA
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY EAST OF A CAYUGA...TEAGUE...
THORNTON LINE.

THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER OR HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 3:20 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
TXZ091>167-220000

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND NORTH TEXAS WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
320 PM CDT FRI OCT 21 1994

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS UNTIL
   8 PM...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON NORTH OF AN EASTLAND...
   HILLSBORO... TO GROVETON LINE...
UPPER AIR DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON CONTINUED TO
TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE.  A COLD FRONT
WAS LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF THE AREA ALONG A LINE FROM WICHITA FALLS
TO SAN ANGELO TO BIG BEND.  AHEAD OF THE FRONT THERE WAS A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH
EXTENDING FROM THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX TO AUSTIN.

SKIES THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTH TEXAS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY.
WINDS WERE GENERALLY FROM THE SOUTH EXCEPT IN WESTERN PORTIONS WHERE THE
WINDS WERE WESTERLY.  TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS RANGED FROM 71
DEGREES AT ADDISON AIRPORT IN DALLAS TO 87 DEGREES IN MINERAL WELLS.
                ...FORECAST FOR NORTH TEXAS...

      ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT EASTERN TWO THIRDS...

TONIGHT WILL BE FAIR IN THE WEST...PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE CENTRAL PORTIONS
WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE. MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE EAST
WITH THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY...SOME SEVERE.  LOWS 55 IN THE EAST AND 65 IN THE
WEST.  A CHANCE OF MORNING THUNDERSTORMS EAST ON SATURDAY OTHERWISE PARTLY
CLOUDY.  MOSTLY SUNNY CENTRAL AND WEST.  HIGHS FROM 83 TO 91.  SATURDAY
NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY SUNNY DURING THE DAY AND MOSTLY CLEAR
AT NIGHT.  LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S TO MIDDLE 50S AND HIGH ON SUNDAY FROM 77
TO 84.
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 3:57 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
TXZ091>167-220000

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND NORTH TEXAS WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
320 PM CDT FRI OCT 21 1994

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS UNTIL
   8 PM...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON NORTH OF AN EASTLAND...
   HILLSBORO... TO GROVETON LINE...
UPPER AIR DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON CONTINUED TO
TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE.  A COLD FRONT
WAS LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF THE AREA ALONG A LINE FROM WICHITA FALLS
TO SAN ANGELO TO BIG BEND.  AHEAD OF THE FRONT THERE WAS A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH
EXTENDING FROM THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX TO AUSTIN.

SKIES THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTH TEXAS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY.
WINDS WERE GENERALLY FROM THE SOUTH EXCEPT IN WESTERN PORTIONS WHERE THE
WINDS WERE WESTERLY.  TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS RANGED FROM 71
DEGREES AT ADDISON AIRPORT IN DALLAS TO 87 DEGREES IN MINERAL WELLS.
                ...FORECAST FOR NORTH TEXAS...

      ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT EASTERN TWO THIRDS...

TONIGHT WILL BE FAIR IN THE WEST...PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE CENTRAL PORTIONS
WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE. MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE EAST
WITH THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY...SOME SEVERE.  LOWS 55 IN THE EAST AND 65 IN THE
WEST.  A CHANCE OF MORNING THUNDERSTORMS EAST ON SATURDAY OTHERWISE PARTLY
CLOUDY.  MOSTLY SUNNY CENTRAL AND WEST.  HIGHS FROM 83 TO 91.  SATURDAY
NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY SUNNY DURING THE DAY AND MOSTLY CLEAR
AT NIGHT.  LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S TO MIDDLE 50S AND HIGH ON SUNDAY FROM 77
TO 84.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 20, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis62 min
Oct 20, 7:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Oct 20, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Jones64 min
Oct 21, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke65 min
Oct 21, 2:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson59 min
Oct 21, 3:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Grayson60 min
Oct 21, 4:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin, Grayson4 hr
Oct 21, 6:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Morris, Titus65 min
Oct 21, 6:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur, Wood65 min
Oct 21, 6:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Denton, Tarrant3 hr
Oct 21, 6:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin3 hr
Oct 21, 8:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman, Rockwall4 hr
Oct 21, 8:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt4 hr
Oct 21, 8:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWood3 hr
Oct 21, 8:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
Oct 21, 10:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman66 min
Oct 21, 1:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Dallas65 min
Oct 21, 2:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall63 min
Oct 21, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
Oct 21, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall65 min
Oct 21, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson57 min
Oct 21, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman62 min
Oct 21, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman61 min
Oct 21, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas50 min
Oct 21, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Somervell68 min
Oct 21, 5:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Oct 21, 5:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman3 hr
Oct 21, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt55 min
Oct 21, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman60 min
Oct 21, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman25 min
Oct 21, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson69 min
Oct 21, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman65 min
Oct 21, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill68 min
Oct 21, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis65 min
Oct 21, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro60 min
Oct 21, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt60 min
Oct 21, 6:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas4 hr

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.