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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 404, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 23, 1995Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1995, 6:21 PM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 1995, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1536 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 1995-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-203 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.0

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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 23, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDScurry54 min
May 23, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall69 min
May 23, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFisher, Scurry60 min
May 23, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDStonewall66 min
May 23, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell61 min
May 23, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher42 min
May 23, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton64 min
May 23, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones62 min
May 23, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan68 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.