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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 3, 1995Comanche County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1995, 7:56 PM CDT for Comanche County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 1995, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Comanche County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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, Apr 3, 4:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 4:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mitchell	69 min
Apr 3, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mitchell	41 min
Apr 3, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	68 min
Apr 4, 12:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	4 hr
Apr 4, 12:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill	4 hr
Apr 4, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	65 min
Apr 4, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	3 hr
Apr 4, 3:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	3 hr
Apr 4, 4:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill	3 hr
Apr 4, 5:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Brown, Coleman	3 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.