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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 12, 1995Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 1995, 9:36 PM CST for Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 1995, 9:36 PM CST (03:36 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 1995, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Mills County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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, Mar 12, 7:10 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 12, 7:11 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 12, 7:42 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 12, 7:46 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 12, 9:36 PM CST, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	58 min
Mar 12, 6:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	60 min
Mar 12, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan	59 min
Mar 12, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	57 min
Mar 13, 1:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	3 hr
Mar 13, 2:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	2 hr
Mar 13, 4:29 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	4 hr
Mar 13, 4:29 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	4 hr
Mar 13, 6:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	4 hr
Mar 13, 6:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	4 hr
Mar 13, 8:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	2 hr
Mar 13, 8:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	2 hr
Mar 13, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	69 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.