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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 385, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 14, 1995Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 8:55 PM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1087 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
1087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor41 min
May 14, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan57 min
May 14, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens, Young73 min
May 14, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland73 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.