Tornado Warning 18, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Apr 19, 1995, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)

Expired

Apr 19, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

56 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Parker County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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TTAA00 KFTW 200037
TORFTW
TXC367-200130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
734 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...PARKER COUNTY
 
AT 734 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
MINERAL WELLS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE
CIRCULATION 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINERAL WELLS.
 
AT 725 PM...BASEBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTH OF PALO PINTO.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTERZ IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
 
 
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In the hours before

TXZ091>096-100>111-115>125-129>136-141>149-156>162-191930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
135 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

AT 135 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST
RAIN WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM DENTON TO WACO TO GRANBURY TO
FORT WORTH TO DENTON. ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED BETWEEN
JACKSBORO AND DECATUR.  MOVEMENT OF WAS TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS
NORTH TEXAS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON.  SOME OF THE
STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS
WELL AS FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.  THE POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE WEATHER WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.

STAYED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS
FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS SDEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.