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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 425, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 25, 1995Franklin County, Titus County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 12:58 AM CDT for Franklin County, Titus County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, TX, Titus County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1717 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
1717 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
5.6

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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, 7:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin50 min
May 24, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRed River40 min
May 24, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRed River30 min
May 24, 9:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin, Grayson4 hr
May 24, 9:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDLamar, Red River4 hr
May 25, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague, Wise67 min
May 25, 4:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke, Denton2 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.