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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1995, 6:18 PM CDT for Callahan County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1995, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Callahan County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABI 072320 TORABI TXC059-080000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 618 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN CALLAHAN COUNTY AT 615 PM CDT...NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR COLEMAN CONFIRM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATIONS OF TORNADIC ROTATION WITHIN THE THUNERSTORM CLUSTER MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH TOWARDS CROSS PLAINS AND LAKE BROWNWOOD. THE DPS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR COLEMAN AT 615 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LASTx RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. IF YOU SEE A TORNADO...ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. &
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
Special weather statement, May 7, 1:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
TXC363-429-071930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 140 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 AT 133 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVCIE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE STEPHENS AND PALO PINTO COUNTY LINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM WILL WILL REACH THE POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE AREA BETWEEN 145 AND 2 PM. BOATERS AND PERSONS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN EASTERN STEPHENS AND WESTERN PALO PINTO COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
Local storm report, May 7, 5:39 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
545 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995
...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORTS FROM DAY MONTH DATE...
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0317 PM WIZARD WELLS TX TORNADO
05/07/95 JACK SIGHTED BY PUBLIC
0352 PM 5 N RUNAWAY BAY TX TORNADO
05/07/95 WISE RICHARDSON BOYSCOUT
CAMP
0410 PM 5 NE SUNSET TX TORNADO
05/07/95 MONTAGUE SIGHTED BY SPOTTERS
0415 PM SAINT JO TX TORNADO
05/07/95 MONTAGUE CONFIRMED BY PUBLIC
0425 PM 4 NW MUENSTER TX TORNADO
05/07/95 COOKE CONFIRMED BY SPOTTERS
0440 PM 5 W SIVELLS BEND TX TORNADO DAMAGE
05/07/95 COOKE
0500 PM ROCHESTER TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/07/95 HASKELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mitchell, Nolan | 58 min |
| May 7, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan | 65 min |
| May 7, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 66 min |
| May 7, 7:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan, Taylor | 56 min |
| May 7, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Nolan | 51 min |
| May 7, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jones, Taylor | 68 min |
| May 7, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 69 min |
| May 7, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan, Coleman, Taylor | 69 min |
| May 7, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Throckmorton | 60 min |
| May 7, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 33 min |
| May 7, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 51 min |
| May 7, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 52 min |
| May 7, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 46 min |
| May 7, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack | 50 min |
| May 7, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mitchell | 63 min |
| May 7, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack | 22 min |
| May 7, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 42 min |
| May 7, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Stonewall | 58 min |
| May 7, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 62 min |
| May 7, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 22 min |
| May 7, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 47 min |
| May 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 61 min |
| May 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 30 min |
| May 7, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 69 min |
| May 7, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 68 min |
| May 7, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 65 min |
| May 7, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 64 min |
| May 7, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown | 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.