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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 29, 1995Denton County, Grayson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1995, 7:41 PM CDT for Denton County, Grayson County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 1995, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Denton County, TX, Grayson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1995-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3886 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 1995-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 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
3886 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.6
Supercell composite
13.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 300041
SVRFTW
TXC121-181-300145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
741 PM CDT SAT APR 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...DENTON COUNTY...GRAYSON COUNTY
 
AT 740 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AT
SHERMAN AND NEAR DENTON. AT 739 PM...GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL HAIL WAS
OBSERVED IN SHERMAN. AT 734 PM...DIME HAIL WAS OBSERVED AT BOLIVAR...AND
SANGER. AT 740 PM...GOLFBALL HAIL WAS OBSERVED JUST EAST OF GRANBURY.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood65 min
Apr 29, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson60 min
Apr 29, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDGrayson55 min
Apr 29, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant56 min
Apr 29, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin63 min
Apr 29, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell60 min
Apr 29, 8:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood115 min
Apr 29, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDSomervell65 min
Apr 29, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque62 min
Apr 29, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas62 min
Apr 29, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant60 min
Apr 29, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin53 min
Apr 29, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRockwall66 min
Apr 29, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Kaufman46 min
Apr 29, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque21 min
Apr 29, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant32 min
Apr 29, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis, Kaufman31 min
Apr 29, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro68 min
Apr 29, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis60 min
Apr 29, 11:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNavarro37 min
Apr 29, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone65 min
Apr 29, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro46 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.