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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 485, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 2, 1995Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 6:51 PM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1995, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1995-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 854 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1995-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 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
854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson57 min
Jun 1, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke33 min
Jun 2, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman, Taylor66 min
Jun 2, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan62 min
Jun 2, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland43 min
Jun 2, 2:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor65 min
Jun 2, 3:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Coleman, Jones65 min
Jun 2, 5:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman60 min
Jun 2, 5:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor69 min
Jun 2, 5:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan65 min
Jun 2, 6:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor69 min
Jun 2, 7:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.