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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 1995, 11:23 PM CDT for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1995, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1995, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Navarro County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 3886 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 300425 TORFTW TXC349-300500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1123 PM CDT SAT APR 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NAVARRO COUNTY AT 1123 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LIKELY TORNADO 12 MILES NORTH OF CORSICANA MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IN CORSICANA...CHATFIELD...HESTER...AND ROANE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWI(SE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 29, 9:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
945 PM CDT SAT APR 29 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0705 PM LAKE TEXOMA TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 GRAYSON
0719 PM DENISON TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 GRAYSON
0734 PM BOLIVAR TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DENTON
0734 PM DENTON TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DENTON
0734 PM SANGER TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DENTON
0735 PM 1 MILE W SHERMAN TX TORNADO
04/29/95 GRAYSON BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN
REPORTED BY SHERMAN DPS
0739 PM SHERMAN TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 GRAYSON CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
REPORTED BY SHERMAN DPS
AND GRAYSON EM
0743 PM GRANBURY TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 HOOD
0755 PM DENTON TX 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DENTON
0805 PM 2 MILES W HOWE TX FUNNEL CLOUD
04/29/95 GRAYSON
0805 PM 2 MILES N GRANBURY TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 HOOD
0805 PM 2 MILES SE GRANBURY TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 HOOD
0805 PM BENBROOK TX 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT
0812 PM DENTON TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DENTON
0814 PM VAN ALSTYNE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 GRAYSON
0832 PM 3 MILES NE COMANCHE PEAK TX 3.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 SOMERVELL
0842 PM 3 MILES SE LEWISVILLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DENTON
0849 PM 8 MILES N DFW TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DENTON
0857 PM E SOMERVELL COUNTY TX 2.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 SOMERVELL
0857 PM S SOMERVELL COUNTY TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 SOMERVELL
0857 PM SOMERVELL COUNTY TX FUNNEL CLOUDS
04/29/95 SOMERVELL NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR
COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR
POWER PLANT
0855 PM GRAPEVINE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT
0900 PM FAIRVIEW TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 COLLIN
0907 PM GRAPEVINE TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT
0913 PM GRAPEVINE TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT REPORTED BY NWS
EMPLOYEE
0913 PM MCKINNEY TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 COLLIN
0915 PM DFW TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT
0917 PM ALLEN TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 COLLIN
0918 PM GRAPEVINE TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT REPORTED BY NWS
EMPLOYEE
0920 PM MURPHY TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 COLLIN
0921 PM WALNUT SPRINGS TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 BOSQUE
0928 PM GRAPEVINE TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT
0935 PM EULESS TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT BROKEN WINDOWS
0937 PM MERIDIAN TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 BOSQUE
0940 PM WATAUGA TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT
0945 PM ROWLETT TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DALLASLocal storm report, Apr 29, 10:42 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1045 PM CDT SAT APR 29 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0952 PM ARLINGTON TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT
0954 PM IRVING TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DALLAS HELL FELL FOR 10 MIN
0954 PM HURST TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT
0958 PM ARLINGTON TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT AT THE BALLPARK IN
ARLINGTON
1000 PM DFW TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT VIA PIREP
1005 PM ARLINGTON TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT BASEBALL HAIL AT THE
BALLPARK IN ARLINGTON
1010 PM ARLINGTON TX 3.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 TARRANT AT THE BALLPARK IN
ARLINGTON
1014 PM GRAND PRAIRIE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DALLAS
1025 PM JOE POOL LAKE TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DALLAS
1030 PM LEWISVILLE TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DENTON
1033 PM CEDAR HILL TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/29/95 DALLASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Grayson | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Grayson | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 56 min |
| Apr 29, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 63 min |
| Apr 29, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 8:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood | 115 min |
| Apr 29, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Somervell | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 53 min |
| Apr 29, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rockwall | 66 min |
| Apr 29, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Kaufman | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 21 min |
| Apr 29, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman | 31 min |
| Apr 29, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 68 min |
| Apr 29, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 46 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.