Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1995, 6:34 AM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1995, 6:34 AM CDT (11:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1995, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stonewall County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABI 061136 SVRABI TXC433-061230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 634 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...STONEWALL COUNTY AT 636 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN STONEWALL COUNTY...JUST WEST OF SWENSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40-45 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
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
Local storm report, May 6, 1:11 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
110 AM CDT SAT MAY 06 1995
...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORTS FROM FRIDAY MAY 5TH...
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM BRECKENRIDGE TX WIND DAMAGE
05/05/95 STEPHENS STRONG WINDS DOWNED
POWER LINES
0617 PM DENNIS TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 PARKER
0619 PM WEATHERFORD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 PARKER SOME HAIL DAMAGE
REPORTED
0620 PM WEATHERFORD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 PARKER
0620 PM WEATHERFORD TX 60 MPH WIND
05/05/95 PARKER
0622 PM WEATHERFORD TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 PARKER
0625 PM 10 E WEATHERFORD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 PARKER
0630 PM SOUTH PARKER COUNTY TX FLOODING
05/05/95 PARKER *** 2 DEAD ***
2 DROWNED
0630 PM ANETTA TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 PARKER HAIL COVERED GROUND AND
ROADS TO 2 FOOT DEPTH.
NUMEROUS CARS AND HOMES
DAMAGED
0700 PM ALEDO TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 PARKER NUMEROUS AUTOMOBILES
WITH WINDOWS KNOCKED OUT
0700 PM TARRANT COUNTY TX 4.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT TARRANT COUNTY RACES
LOGGED OVER 80 REPORTS
OF LARGE HAIL OVER THE
SOUTHEASTERN TWO-THIRDS
OF TARRANT COUNTY BET-
WEEN 700 PM AND 750 PM.
NUMEROUS BASEBALL TO
SOFTBALL HAIL REPORTS
WERE LOGGED. MANY IN-
STANCES OF SIGNIFICANT
DAMAGE TO CARS...HOMES..
AND BUSINESSES WERE RE-
CEIVED. IN ADDITION..
SEVERAL REPORTS OF WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH WERE
RECEIVED.
0703 PM WHITE SETTLEMENT TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT
0705 PM BENBROOK TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT
0708 PM FORT WORTH TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT REPORTED AT NAS CARSWELL
0711 PM WHITE SETTLEMENT TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT
0720 PM FORT WORTH TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT JUST WEST OF DOWNTOWN
FORT WORTH
0720 PM FORT WORTH TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT AT HWY 80 AND CHERRY
LANE IN SW FORT WORTH.
0723 PM COMANCHE COUNTY TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 COMANCHE NUMEROUS REPORTS OVER
COUNTY
0730 PM FORT WORTH TX 4.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT *** 90 INJ ***
HAIL TO SOFTBALL SIZE
FELL IN AND NEAR
DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH.
60-70 INJURIES OCCURRED
AT MAYFEST EVENT AT
TRINITY PARK JUST WEST
OF DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH.
MOST OF INJURIES WERE
CUTS AND BRUISES...SOME
BROKEN BONES WERE ALSO
REPORTED BY LOCAL MEDIA.
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
MAJOR DAMAGE TO BUILD-
INGS IN DOWNTOWN FORT
WORTH. FORT WORTH CITY
HALL SUFFERED CONSID-
ERABLE DAMAGE. GLASS
ATRIUM AT HARRIS
METHODIST HOSPITAL WAS
SEVERELY DAMAGED.
REPORTS RELAYED FROM
TARRANT COUNTY RACES AND
KRLD.
0735 PM FORT WORTH TX 4.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT SOFTBALL HAIL ON
SOUTHEAST SIDE OF FORT
WORTH AT KXAS
0735 PM FORT WORTH TX 75 MPH WIND
05/05/95 TARRANT SOUTHEAST SIDE OF FORT
WORTH AT KXAS
0735 PM FORT WORTH TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT BASEBALL HAIL ON EAST
SIDE OF FORT WORTH
0735 PM FORT WORTH TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT BASEBALL HAIL ON
SOUTHEAST SIDE OF FORT
WORTH
0735 PM FORT WORTH TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT AT NWSFO FTW ON NORTH
SIDE OF FORT WORTH
0750 PM FORT WORTH TX WIND DAMAGE
05/05/95 TARRANT WALL BLOWN IN AT GE
WAREHOUSE IN SOUTH FORT
WORTH
0746 PM NORTH RICHLAND HILLS TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT
0750 PM BEDFORD TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 TARRANT
0820 PM LAS COLINAS TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 DALLAS
0832 PM 5 EAST OF DFW TX 70 MPH WIND
05/05/95 DALLAS
0840 PM DALLAS TX FLOODING
05/05/95 DALLAS PARKLAND AND BAYLOR
EMERGENCY ROOMS CLOSED
DUE TO HIGH WATER
CLOSING ENTRANCES.
PUMPING WATER FROM
BUILDING AT THIS TIME.
0903 PM NEAR WAXAHACHIE TX WIND DAMAGE
05/05/95 ELLIS TREE DOWN AND NUMEROUS
POWER LINES DOWN
0915 PM NEAR WAXAHACHIE TX FLOODING
05/05/95 ELLIS NUMEROUS ROADS UNDER
WATER
0900 PM DALLAS TX WIND DAMAGE
05/05/95 DALLAS *** 2 DEAD, 12 INJ ***
ROOF AT HAGGAR PLANT
NEAR LOVE FIELD COL-
LAPSED DUE TO HIGH
WINDS.
0945 PM TERREL TX 60 MPH WIND
05/05/95 KAUFMAN
0955 PM WHITNEY TX FLOODING
05/05/95 HILL SEWAGE PLANT WASHED OUT.
NUMEROUS ROADS UNDER
WATER. SEVERAL CREEKS
OUT OF BANKS. APARTMENT
BUILDINGS EVACUATED.
1008 PM CANTON TX 60 MPH WIND
05/05/95 VAN ZANDT
1034 PM 8 WEST FROST TX FLOODING
05/05/95 NAVARRO TX 22 WATER COVERING
ROAD
1040 PM COOLIDGE TX WIND DAMAGE
05/05/95 LIMESTONE TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWNED
1050 PM LORENA TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 MCLENNAN
1030 PM 5 E EDOM TX WIND DAMAGE
05/05/95 SMITH TREES DOWNED
1130 PM 8 NW TROUP TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/95 SMITH
1143 PM MORGAN TX FLOODING
05/05/95 BOSQUE SOME ROADS CLOSED.
SEVERAL REPORTS OF
STREET FLOODING
THROUGHOUT COUNTY.
1148 PM N OF WHITNEY TX FLOODING
05/05/95 HILL SEVERAL BRIDGES WASHED
OUT ON FARM TO MARKET
ROADS ALONG AQUILLA
CREEK.
1210 AM 4 NW LEROY TX FLOODING
05/05/95 MCLENNAN FOOT OF WATER COVERING
FM 308 NEAR COUNTY
d LINE.Special weather statement, May 6, 1:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ117>120-133-134-060730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 128 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING OVER THE METROPLEX... AT 128 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD REDEVELOPED FROM DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH TO SEAGOVILLE. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 6, 2:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ092>096-102>111-116>125-131>135-144>149-060815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 211 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 1995 AT 211 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTH DALLAS BETWEEN FARMERS BRANCH AND PLANO. THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL AT DFW AIRPORT BETWEEN 152 AND 154 AM. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED SINCE 2 AM BUT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND WINDS GUSTS TO 30 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE AN AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTH TEXAS EAST OF A MOUNT VERNON....MESQUITE...FAIRFIELD LINE. A FEW SHOWERS WERE BETWEEN PARIS AND CLARKSVILLE...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN FAIRFIELD AND CAMERON. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR .UPDATES.
Special weather statement, May 6, 2:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ091>096-102>111-115>125-129>136-141>149-157>163-060830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 245 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 245 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT AN AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST OF A QUITMAN... ATHENS...PALESTINE LINE. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS IN KAUFMAN COUNTY NEAR TERRELL...AND AN ISOLATED SHOWER WAS OVER RED RIVER COUNTY BETWEEN CLARKSVILLE AND MANCHESTER. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST EAST OF TYLER. MOVEMENT OF ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHEdR IN THE WATCH AREA HAS DECREASED THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Special weather statement, May 6, 6:07 AM CDT, 27 minutes before
TXZ091>167-061900- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 600 PM CDT SAT MAY 6 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY WEST OF A MONTAGUE TO LAMPASAS LINE TODAY AND TONIGHT AND THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE RISK AREA WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING HAIL...HIGH WIND AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE IS TRIGGERING ANOTHER OUTBREAK OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN PART OF WEST TEXAS. THIS SQUALL LINE WILL THREATEN THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING. ANOTHER SQUALL LINE SHOULD FORM ACROSS WEST TEXAS BY EARLY AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO WESTERN NORTH TEXAS BY LATE AFTERNOON.. REACHING THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH TEXAS EARLY THIS EVENING AND EAST TEXAS LATER TONIGHT. THE AIRMASS OVER NORTH TEXAS REMAINS UNSTABLE. WARM MOIST GULF OF MEXICO AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW INTO THE AREA AT LOW LEVELS...WHILE AT UPPER LEVELS COOLING WILL CONTINUE. THESE FEATURES COMBINE TO FURTHER DESTABILIZE THE AIRMASS. LOW LEVEL WIND FROM THE SOUTHEAST WILL RAPIDLY SHIFT TO THE SOUTHWEST WITH HEIGHT. THIS CLOCKWISE TURNING OF THE WIND IS A FAVORABLE PATTERN TO INTENSIFY ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. AFTER THIS ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT...A VERY INTENSE UPPER AIR TROUGH WILL MOVE INTO WEST TEXAS ON SUNDAY. THIS TROUGH WILL PROBABLY TRIGGER YET ANOTHER SQUALL LINE WHICH SHOULD MOVE RAPIDLY INTO NORTH TEXAS DURING THE DAY SUNDAY. DUE TO THE INTENSITY OF THE UPPER AIR TROUGH...THERE COULD BE A DANGEROUS OUTBREAK OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. THIS WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IS BEING MONITORED CLOSELY. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTORS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD IN THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE AREA SHOULD EXPECT ACTIVATION ANY TIME TODAY...THOSE OVER THE CENTRAL 1/3 BY EARLY EVENING AND THE EASTERN THIRD BY 9 PM CDT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 69 min |
| May 5, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 69 min |
| May 5, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 3 hr |
| May 5, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 5, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 66 min |
| May 5, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas | 22 min |
| May 5, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 63 min |
| May 5, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 67 min |
| May 5, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 64 min |
| May 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 2 hr |
| May 5, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 57 min |
| May 5, 9:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill, Navarro | 3 hr |
| May 5, 9:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 3 hr |
| May 5, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas | 32 min |
| May 5, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 59 min |
| May 5, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 46 min |
| May 5, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 60 min |
| May 5, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 64 min |
| May 5, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Wood | 58 min |
| May 5, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith | 61 min |
| May 5, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell | 39 min |
| May 5, 10:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 5, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone, McLennan | 63 min |
| May 5, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cherokee | 56 min |
| May 5, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Upshur | 56 min |
| May 6, 12:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone, McLennan | 2 hr |
| May 6, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 34 min |
| May 6, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 62 min |
| May 6, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 62 min |
| May 6, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 35 min |
| May 6, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 35 min |
| May 6, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell | 69 min |
| May 6, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 31 min |
| May 6, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 62 min |
| May 6, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 66 min |
| May 6, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 43 min |
| May 6, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 53 min |
| May 6, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 50 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.