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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 7, 1995Eastland County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1995, 6:41 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1995, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Eastland County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 7, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Rising Star-Gorman, TX	Mobile homes were damaged by a tornado. There was widespread damage to barns, outbuildings, and trees.

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 072340
TORFTW
TXC133-080045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
641 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...EASTLAND COUNTY
 
AT 641 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR
BURKETT. SPOTTERS ALSO HAVE REPORTED A TORNADO IN THIS LOCATION. THE
STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL PASS BETWEEN CROSS
PLAINS AND RISING STAR BY AROUND 7 PM. PEOPLE IN CROSS
PLAINS...PIONEER...RISING STAR...CROSS CUT AND OTHER COMMUNITIES IN
SOUTHWESTERN EASTLAND COUNTY SHOUPLD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER 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.

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 59 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, 1 hour 2 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   HASKELL

The 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, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Callahan	42 min
May 7, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.