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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 3, 1995Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1995, 11:07 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 3, 1995, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 1995-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
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

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
Apr 3, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche64 min
Apr 3, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell69 min
Apr 3, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMitchell41 min
Apr 4, 12:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Hamilton4 hr
Apr 4, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill4 hr
Apr 4, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill65 min
Apr 4, 1:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Apr 4, 3:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Navarro3 hr
Apr 4, 4:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill3 hr
Apr 4, 5:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBrown, Coleman3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.