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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 7, 1995Jones County, Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 8:07 AM CDT for Jones County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1995, 8:07 AM CDT (13:07 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1995, 9:15 AM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jones County, TX, Taylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2940 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2940 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.0

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell, Nolan58 min
May 7, 6:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan65 min
May 7, 6:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor66 min
May 7, 7:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan, Taylor56 min
May 7, 8:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Nolan51 min
May 7, 8:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor69 min
May 7, 10:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Coleman, Taylor69 min
May 7, 11:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton60 min
May 7, 12:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche33 min
May 7, 1:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland51 min
May 7, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack52 min
May 7, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung46 min
May 7, 2:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack50 min
May 7, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell63 min
May 7, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack22 min
May 7, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise42 min
May 7, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Stonewall58 min
May 7, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMontague62 min
May 7, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCooke22 min
May 7, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall47 min
May 7, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman61 min
May 7, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDColeman30 min
May 7, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor69 min
May 7, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBrown, Coleman68 min
May 7, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCallahan42 min
May 7, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland65 min
May 7, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDEastland64 min
May 7, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBrown46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.