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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 466, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 31, 19954 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 6:50 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1995, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fisher County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 847 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
847 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.7

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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

Local storm report, May 31, 6:10 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
609 PM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORTS FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MAY 31ST...

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    CADDO                     TX   3.50 INCH HAIL
05/31/95   STEPHENS

0315 PM    NEAR TOLAR                TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/31/95   HOOD

0343 PM    GLEN ROSE                 TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/95   SOMERVELL

0437 PM    RED OAK                   TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/95   ELLIS

0454 PM    LAGUNA PARK               TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/95   BOSQUE

0510 PM    BARDWELL                  TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/95   ELLIS

0515 PM    3 S WHITNEY               TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/95   HILL

0539 PM    5 N GHOLSON               TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/31/95   MCLENNAN

0555 PM    ELM MOTT                  TX   0.75 INCH HAI,L
05/31/95   MCLENNAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hunt2 hr
May 30, 8:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Rains2 hr
May 30, 8:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin2 hr
May 30, 9:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt3 hr
May 31, 1:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt2 hr
May 31, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens65 min
May 31, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto66 min
May 31, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath55 min
May 31, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood55 min
May 31, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker51 min
May 31, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant62 min
May 31, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell64 min
May 31, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Nolan64 min
May 31, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Johnson59 min
May 31, 3:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFisher, Nolan55 min
May 31, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFisher, Nolan55 min
May 31, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis52 min
May 31, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor2 hr
May 31, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill61 min
May 31, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTaylor55 min
May 31, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNolan67 min
May 31, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque49 min
May 31, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones59 min
May 31, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman50 min
May 31, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan61 min
May 31, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro56 min
May 31, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTaylor65 min
May 31, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson47 min
May 31, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman2 hr
May 31, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt47 min
May 31, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan27 min
May 31, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson50 min
May 31, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls54 min
May 31, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall55 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.