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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 414, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 23, 1995Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1995, 9:54 PM CDT for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 1995, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Parker County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 274 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: 1765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.6
Supercell composite: -2.9

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The text

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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 23, 8:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 9:35 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 9:51 PM CDT, 3 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
May 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens, Young	60 min
May 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	60 min
May 23, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	65 min
May 23, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	70 min
May 23, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	59 min
May 23, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	61 min
May 23, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	55 min
May 24, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	64 min
May 24, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	69 min
May 24, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	66 min
May 24, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	63 min
May 24, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	56 min
May 24, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	56 min
May 24, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	65 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.