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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 26, 1995Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1995, 7:14 PM CDT for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 26, 1995, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Erath County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 1995-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 289 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 1995-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 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
289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Johnson, Somervell57 min
Apr 26, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant57 min
Apr 26, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker29 min
Apr 26, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton29 min
Apr 26, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas61 min
Apr 26, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche35 min
Apr 26, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton60 min
Apr 26, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque66 min
Apr 26, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar, Red River61 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.