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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 377, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 8, 1995Kaufman County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 12:06 AM CDT for Kaufman County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1995, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1995, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kaufman County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 1995-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3345 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 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
3345 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
424 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
5.5
Supercell composite
18.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 7, 7:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
TXZ091>093-099>104-114>119-128>134-139>145-154>157-159-080245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
800 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
UNTIL 2AM...

TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR RANGER AND NEAR
COMANCHE...ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
BROWNWOOD.  THESES STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN
HOUR.

THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
NOCONA TO BOWIE TO JACKSBORO TO CISCO.  THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...INDIVIDUAL CELLS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL`
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.  BE ALERT TO CHANGING CONDITIONS AND
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS.
Special weather statement, May 7, 8:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ091>093-099>104-114>119-128>134-139>145-154>157-159-080245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
800 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
UNTIL 2AM...

AT 755 PM NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
NEAR RANGER AND NEAR COMANCHE...ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR BROWNWOOD.  THESES STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
NOCONA TO BOWIE TO JACKSBORO TO CISCO.  THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...INDIVIDUAL CELLS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGESlT OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.  BE ALERT TO CHANGING CONDITIONS AND
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman59 min
May 7, 7:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEastland58 min
May 7, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche64 min
May 7, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDComanche62 min
May 7, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDEastland58 min
May 7, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDErath65 min
May 7, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto68 min
May 7, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Parker59 min
May 7, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDComanche66 min
May 7, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDErath62 min
May 7, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hamilton62 min
May 7, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell62 min
May 7, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Parker43 min
May 7, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant63 min
May 7, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise46 min
May 7, 9:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Parker, Somervell3 hr
May 7, 9:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise3 hr
May 7, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton60 min
May 7, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill61 min
May 7, 10:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant4 hr
May 7, 10:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Denton4 hr
May 7, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis60 min
May 7, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas56 min
May 7, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas64 min
May 7, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin61 min
May 7, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Hunt55 min
May 8, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt60 min
May 8, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains40 min
May 8, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Wood63 min
May 8, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith30 min
May 8, 1:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Palo Pinto, Parker3 hr
May 8, 1:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins3 hr
May 8, 2:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWood3 hr
May 8, 2:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro3 hr
May 8, 2:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Somervell, Tarrant4 hr
May 8, 2:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall4 hr
May 8, 2:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCamp, Franklin, Titus4 hr
May 8, 2:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton4 hr
May 8, 2:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt4 hr
May 8, 3:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt, Rains3 hr
May 8, 4:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCoryell, Hamilton3 hr
May 8, 4:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro4 hr
May 8, 4:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins4 hr
May 8, 5:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood4 hr
May 8, 6:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood4 hr
May 8, 7:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Lamar4 hr

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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.