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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 5, 1995Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 6:27 PM CDT for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1995, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Parker County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-05Temperature 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 159 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 052328
SVRFTW
TXC367-060030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
627 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS EXTENDED THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PARKER COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CDT.
 
AT 627 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF
WEATHERFORD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THE STORM PRODUCED GOLBALL
HAIL IN DENNIS AT 615 PM AND ONE nINCH HAIL IN WEATHERFORD AT 625 PM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  AS IT APPROACHES YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE MOVE TO STURDY SHELTER NOW.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell, Scurry69 min
May 5, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher63 min
May 5, 1:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell, Scurry64 min
May 5, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Stonewall58 min
May 5, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell, Nolan67 min
May 5, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Jones60 min
May 5, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell58 min
May 5, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Taylor67 min
May 5, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford61 min
May 5, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens53 min
May 5, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland45 min
May 5, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker42 min
May 5, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young52 min
May 5, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown, Coleman65 min
May 5, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Erath68 min
May 5, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant60 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.