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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 4, 1995Montague County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 7:32 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
Jul 4, 1995, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Montague County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 4, 7:42 PM CDTTornado F0Bowie, TXA brief tornado touchdown was reported.

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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3606 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1355 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
8.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 050032
TORFTW
TXC337-050115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
732 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN MONTAGUE COUNTY
 
AT 730 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF BOWIE MOVING TO THE EAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SUNSET AND
SMYRNA ALONG WITH BOWIE SHOULD TAKE SHELTER 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague61 min
Jul 4, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack60 min
Jul 4, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Montague59 min
Jul 4, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson, Wise57 min
Jul 4, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack57 min
Jul 4, 9:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMontague3 hr
Jul 4, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague65 min
Jul 4, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton, Young60 min
Jul 4, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford58 min
Jul 4, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson, Wise65 min
Jul 4, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack65 min
Jul 4, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin65 min
Jul 4, 10:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack3 hr
Jul 4, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung67 min
Jul 4, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague67 min
Jul 4, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford61 min
Jul 4, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan56 min
Jul 4, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto62 min
Jul 4, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Lamar60 min
Jul 4, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Wise60 min
Jul 4, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke60 min
Jul 4, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker55 min
Jul 4, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague33 min
Jul 4, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Tarrant68 min
Jul 4, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin60 min
Jul 4, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson61 min
Jul 5, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker68 min
Jul 5, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens64 min
Jul 5, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Lamar60 min
Jul 5, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto68 min
Jul 5, 1:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker54 min
Jul 5, 2:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant59 min
Jul 5, 3:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas69 min
Jul 5, 5:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor68 min
Jul 5, 5:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan61 min
Jul 5, 5:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas2 hr
Jul 5, 6:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Coleman68 min
Jul 5, 7:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown55 min
Jul 5, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor64 min
Jul 5, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Nolan67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.