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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 417, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 24, 1995Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 4:54 PM CDT for Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1995, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ellis County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 1995-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 1995-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 24, 1:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ091>095-101>107-117>123-130>135-143>148-156>161-242100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
127 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH TEXAS HAS BEEN
CANCELLED. WINDS HAVE DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THIS MORNING...WITH
SPEEDS THIS AFTERNOON DOWN INTO THE 10 TO 15 MPH RANGE.
Special weather statement, May 24, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
TXZ116-118-119-120-130-133-141-143-144-145-242145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
344 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 340 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING BETWEEN FORT WORTH...GRANBURY...
STEPHENVILLE...MERIDIAN...AND CLEBURNE.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL.  THE STORMS WILL ENTER THE
DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX BY 430 PM...AND WILL AFFECT RUSH HOUR
TRAFFIC.

MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME FOR ThHEIR DRIVE
HOME TONIGHT...AND BOATERS IN LAKE GRANBURY...BENBROOK AND JOE POOL
LAKES SHOULD HEAD TO SHORE NOW.
Special weather statement, May 24, 4:07 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
TXZ091-102-133-145-242145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
406 PM CDT WED MAY 24 1995

AT 406 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED SEVERAL
STRONG STORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THESE STORMS...CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING..WERE LOCATED OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF MONTAGUE COUNTY...JUST SOUTHWEST
OF BRIDGEPORT IN WISE COUNTY...AND OVER SOUTHERN JOHNSON AND NORTHERN
HILL COUNTIES FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLEBURNE TO COVINGTON.
MOVEMENT OF ALL STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens, Young60 min
May 23, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland60 min
May 23, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto65 min
May 23, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack70 min
May 23, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath59 min
May 23, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker61 min
May 23, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise55 min
May 23, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker66 min
May 24, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise64 min
May 24, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill69 min
May 24, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas63 min
May 24, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin56 min
May 24, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro56 min
May 24, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson65 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.