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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 25, 1995, 6:14 PM CST for Dallas County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 1995, 6:14 PM CST (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1995, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dallas County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 260015 TORFTW TXC113-260100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 614 PM CST SAT MAR 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...DALLAS COUNTY AT 615 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST WEST OF SUNNYVALE. 2 INCH HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BALCH SPRINGS...SUNNYVALE AND MESQUITE SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rockwall | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 6:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 64 min |
| Mar 25, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 61 min |
| Mar 25, 7:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 57 min |
| Mar 25, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 39 min |
| Mar 25, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 66 min |
| Mar 25, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 70 min |
| Mar 25, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rockwall | 46 min |
| Mar 25, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 44 min |
| Mar 25, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 66 min |
| Mar 25, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Mar 25, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 57 min |
| Mar 25, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 3:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 4:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 4:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 4:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 2:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 3:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Titus | 37 min |
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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.