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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 19, 1995Kaufman County, Rockwall County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1995, 3:26 PM CDT for Kaufman County, Rockwall County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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
Apr 19, 1995, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kaufman County, TX, Rockwall County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Apr 19, 3:31 PM CDTTornado F0Crandall, TXA brief tornado touchdown was reported.
Apr 19, 3:40 PM CDTTornado F1Post Oak, TXSeven homes and a barn were destroyed, and two barns were damaged by a tornado.

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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 12:00Z on 1995-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 192028
TORFTW
TXC257-397-192130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
326 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...KAUFMAN COUNTY...ROCKWALL COUNTY
 
AT 326 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY
NEAR SEAGOVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
SPOTTERS REPORT A TORNADO NEAR SEAGOVILLE.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN CRANDALL...FORNEY...TERRELL...AND ROCKWALL...TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

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, Apr 19, 11:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
TXZ094-191730-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1125 AM CDT WED APR 19 1995

AT 1125 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE 10
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BONHAM AND THE SECOND 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF
BONHAM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 25 MPH. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND
POSSIBLY PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 11:56 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
TXZ091>167-200200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1200 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS.  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF
BROWNWOOD...WEATHERFORD...DENTON...PARIS... SHERMAN/DENISON...
TEXARKANA...DALLAS/FT WORTH...LUFKIN...TYLER/LONGVIEW...
WACO...TEMPLE...AND KILLEEN.

AT NOONTIME...THE STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN
NEW MEXICO AND MOVING EASTWARD.  RICH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER SOUTH
TEXAS CONTINUES TO ADVANCE NORTH AND WAS POSITIONED SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM SAN ANGELO TO HILLSBORO TO LONGVIEW.  A DEEPENING SURFACE LOW WAS
LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO WITH A WARM FRONT EXTENDING EASTWARD
ACROSS TEXAS TO SHREVEPORT AND A DRYLINE EXTENDING FROM HOBBS NEW
MEXICO SOUTH INTO OLD MEXICO.

AS THE DAY PROGRESSES...UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS ALONG WITH LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE AND SURFACE BOUNDARIES WILL RESULT IN SEVERE WEATHER
DEVELOPING ACROSS THE WESTERN PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON.
ALTHOUGH...THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL
AND HIGH WINDS...THE VEERING OF WINDS WITH HEIGHTS WILL FAVOR
SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT AND THE FORMATION OF A FEW TORNADOES.  THE
THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL SHIFT TO EAST TEXAS BY LATE EVENING.

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE
ACTIVATION ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS
AFTERNOON AND IN THE EAST TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
TXZ091>096-100>111-115>125-129>136-141>149-156>162-191830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1240 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

AT 1235 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST
RAIN WAS LOCATED IN A LINE FROM GAINSVILLE TO BRECKENRIDGE...
FROM MERIDIAN TO SOUTH OF KILLEEN AND BETWEEN ALVARADO AND
WAXAHACHIE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 40 MILES PER HOUR.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS
NORTH TEXAS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON.  SOME OF THE
STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS
WELL AS FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.  THE POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE WEATHER WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.

STAYED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS
FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
TXZ091>096-100>111-115>125-129>136-141>149-156>162-191930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
135 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

AT 135 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST
RAIN WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM DENTON TO WACO TO GRANBURY TO
FORT WORTH TO DENTON. ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED BETWEEN
JACKSBORO AND DECATUR.  MOVEMENT OF WAS TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS
NORTH TEXAS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON.  SOME OF THE
STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS
WELL AS FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.  THE POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE WEATHER WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.

STAYED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS
FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS SDEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill61 min
Apr 19, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis56 min
Apr 19, 2:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHill60 min
Apr 19, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan57 min
Apr 19, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDEllis68 min
Apr 19, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas56 min
Apr 19, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro60 min
Apr 19, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNavarro59 min
Apr 19, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall68 min
Apr 19, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Henderson66 min
Apr 19, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt62 min
Apr 19, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Rains, Van Zandt55 min
Apr 19, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones39 min
Apr 19, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell67 min
Apr 19, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHopkins64 min
Apr 19, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman61 min
Apr 19, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt69 min
Apr 19, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDStonewall63 min
Apr 19, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman45 min
Apr 19, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDVan Zandt63 min
Apr 19, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFranklin, Titus64 min
Apr 19, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith, Wood59 min
Apr 19, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDRed River62 min
Apr 19, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Morris, Upshur61 min
Apr 19, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton68 min
Apr 19, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche68 min
Apr 19, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath58 min
Apr 19, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens, Young56 min
Apr 19, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Palo Pinto68 min
Apr 19, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMorris47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.