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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 392, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 17, 1995Collin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 9:23 AM CDT for Collin County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1995, 9:23 AM CDT (14:23 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1995, 10:15 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Collin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 1995-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1362 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 1995-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 271 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
1362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-317 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 17, 6:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 8:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker31 min
May 17, 8:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant49 min
May 17, 8:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton42 min
May 17, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson55 min
May 17, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis69 min
May 17, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas68 min
May 17, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell66 min
May 17, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.