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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1995, 7:13 PM CDT for Fisher County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1995, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fisher County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABI 060014 TORABI TXC151-060115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 713 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...FISHER COUNTY AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT LUBBOCK INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTH OF THE FISHER/KENT COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH TOWARD ROTAN AND ROBY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO O`UTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS AND SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
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, Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
TXZ098-099-052300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 505 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 AT 504 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR KNOX CITY MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY AND WILL CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. PERSONS IN HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE FOR THIS STORM SHOULD IT TURN MORE TO THE SOUTH. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ098-099-052300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 505 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 AT 504 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR KNOX CITY MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY AND WILL CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. PERSONS IN HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE FOR THIS STORM SHOULD IT TURN MORE TO THE SOUTH. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STbATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
TXZ098-099-052315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 540 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS TIL 10 PM.. AT 535 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF KNOX CITY MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE MILLERS CREEK RESERVOIR AREA BY 600 PM. ALSO...THIS STORM WAS INTENSIFYING AND MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. PERSONS IN HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE FOR THIS STORM SHOULD IT TURN MORE TO THE SOUTH. FURTHER WEST...AN AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN THE CITIES OF CHILDRESS AND DICKENS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones | 54 min |
| Jun 5, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Throckmorton | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jones, Shackelford | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 69 min |
| Jun 5, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 31 min |
Nearby
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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.