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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 16, 1995Montague County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 8:36 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 16, 1995, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Montague County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1335 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 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
1335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 170136
SVRFTW
TXC337-170230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
836 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...MONTAGUE COUNTY
 
AT 836 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF STONEBURG. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDScurry60 min
Apr 17, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall60 min
Apr 17, 4:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall59 min
Apr 17, 5:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Scurry68 min
Apr 17, 6:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones, Stonewall67 min
Apr 17, 6:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher37 min
Apr 17, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor67 min
Apr 17, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTaylor57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.