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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 13, 1995Bell County, Falls County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1995, 3:51 PM CST for Bell County, Falls County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 1995, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 1995, 5:00 PM CST
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bell County, TX, Falls County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 1995-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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 1995-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-79 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, Mar 13, 11:46 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 6:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor58 min
Mar 12, 6:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones60 min
Mar 12, 6:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan59 min
Mar 12, 7:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman57 min
Mar 12, 9:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills54 min
Mar 13, 1:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis3 hr
Mar 13, 2:38 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Grayson2 hr
Mar 13, 4:29 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Grayson4 hr
Mar 13, 4:29 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis4 hr
Mar 13, 6:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro4 hr
Mar 13, 6:32 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson4 hr
Mar 13, 8:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis2 hr
Mar 13, 8:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Grayson2 hr

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.