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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 6, 1995Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1995, 1:52 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
May 6, 1995, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Wise County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 1995-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 713 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 262 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
713 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
387 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.3

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The text

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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

Special weather statement, May 6, 1:00 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTarrant69 min
May 5, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown69 min
May 5, 7:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Parker3 hr
May 5, 7:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
May 5, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills66 min
May 5, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas22 min
May 5, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis63 min
May 5, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill67 min
May 5, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton64 min
May 5, 8:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis2 hr
May 5, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman57 min
May 5, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Navarro3 hr
May 5, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque3 hr
May 5, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas32 min
May 5, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro59 min
May 5, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton46 min
May 5, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt60 min
May 5, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan64 min
May 5, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Wood58 min
May 5, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith61 min
May 5, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Coryell39 min
May 5, 10:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant3 hr
May 5, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone, McLennan63 min
May 5, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCherokee56 min
May 5, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur56 min
May 6, 12:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Limestone, McLennan2 hr
May 6, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone34 min
May 6, 5:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall62 min
May 6, 6:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall56 min
May 6, 6:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland62 min
May 6, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor35 min
May 6, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford35 min
May 6, 7:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell69 min
May 6, 7:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath31 min
May 6, 10:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague62 min
May 6, 11:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke66 min
May 6, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson43 min
May 6, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton50 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.