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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 20, 1995Leon County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1995, 2:39 PM CDT for Leon County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 1995, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Leon County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 severe thunderstorm 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, Apr 20, 11:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 20, 12:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 20, 12:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 20, 1:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 20, 1:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 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
Apr 19, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Mills	65 min
Apr 19, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	54 min
Apr 19, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	62 min
Apr 19, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Parker	56 min
Apr 19, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	68 min
Apr 19, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	64 min
Apr 19, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	60 min
Apr 19, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	56 min
Apr 19, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	59 min
Apr 19, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Tarrant	56 min
Apr 19, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	65 min
Apr 19, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton	58 min
Apr 19, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	69 min
Apr 19, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	69 min
Apr 19, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	61 min
Apr 19, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Dallas	59 min
Apr 19, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	65 min
Apr 19, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	64 min
Apr 19, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Kaufman	65 min
Apr 19, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Rockwall	31 min
Apr 19, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	29 min
Apr 19, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	58 min
Apr 19, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, McLennan	53 min
Apr 19, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	61 min
Apr 19, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wood	60 min
Apr 20, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	46 min
Apr 20, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	49 min
Apr 20, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	63 min
Apr 20, 8:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	68 min
Apr 20, 8:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	64 min
Apr 20, 8:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	27 min
Apr 20, 8:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone, Navarro	57 min
Apr 20, 9:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	50 min
Apr 20, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	68 min
Apr 20, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	37 min
Apr 20, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	68 min
Apr 20, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	53 min
Apr 20, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	56 min
Apr 20, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	65 min
Apr 20, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cherokee	35 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.