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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 18, 1995Upshur County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1995, 5:36 AM CST for Upshur County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 18, 1995, 5:36 AM CST (11:36 UTC)
Expired
Jan 18, 1995, 6:30 AM CST
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Upshur County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-01-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-01-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 181137 RRA
SVRFTW
TXC459-181230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
536 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN UPSHUR COUNTY
 
AT 535 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN WINNSBORO AND
SHADY GROVE MOVING  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE
NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY BETWEEN 540 AND 550 AM.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NICKEL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND
WINDS OF 60 TO 80 MPH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 1:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche51 min
Jan 18, 2:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Somervell47 min
Jan 18, 2:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson45 min
Jan 18, 3:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill45 min
Jan 18, 3:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis53 min
Jan 18, 3:31 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant44 min
Jan 18, 3:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman61 min
Jan 18, 4:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque34 min
Jan 18, 4:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt42 min
Jan 18, 4:43 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Wood47 min
Jan 18, 4:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill38 min
Jan 18, 5:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone39 min
Jan 18, 5:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Franklin, Titus62 min
Jan 18, 5:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson49 min
Jan 18, 5:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMorris37 min
Jan 18, 6:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith50 min
Jan 18, 6:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCherokee27 min
Jan 18, 6:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur, Wood47 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.