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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1995, 6:41 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1995, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 282342 TORABI TXC049-290045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX ISSUED BY FORT WORTH TX 641 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BROWN COUNTY AT 641 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST NORTH OF BROWNWOOD. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PERSONS IN BROWNWOOD TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR `ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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 28, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ098>101-114>117-128>130-140>142-282100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 305 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995 AT 305 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER AN AREA GENERALLY WEST OF AN ARCHER CITY TO MINERAL WELLS TO COMANCHE LINE. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF OLNEY...10 MILES SOUTH OF JACKSBORO AND 8 MILES WEST OF EASTLAND. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...YOU WILL ENCOUNTER DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WIND TO 45 MPH AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ098>101-114>117-128>130-140>142-282100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 305 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995 AT 305 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER AN AREA GENERALLY WEST OF AN ARCHER CITY TO MINERAL WELLS TO COMANCHE LINE. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF OLNEY...10 MILES SOUTH OF JACKSBORO AND 8 MILES WEST OF EASTLAND. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...YOU WILL ENCOUNTER DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WIND TO 45 MPH AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 68 min |
| Jun 28, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Young | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 5:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 58 min |
| Jun 28, 6:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 3 hr |
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.