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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 24, 2025Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2025, 7:34 PM CDT for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 24, 2025, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Oct 24, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Radar indicated
Hail
0.75 in

County Parker County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 24, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 2025-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1915 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2025-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1915 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.0
Supercell composite
10.3

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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.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Oct 24, 6:35 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 6:35 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson42 min
Oct 24, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker61 min
Oct 24, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDBosque, Hood, Somervell78 min
Oct 24, 7:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker3 hr
Oct 24, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas60 min
Oct 24, 8:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke, Grayson3 hr
Oct 24, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill, Johnson, Tarrant68 min
Oct 24, 8:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise3 hr
Oct 24, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker35 min
Oct 24, 9:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell, McLennan55 min
Oct 24, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant54 min
Oct 24, 9:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis, Hill48 min
Oct 24, 10:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin, Ellis, Kaufman, Navarro, Rockwall49 min
Oct 24, 10:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFalls, Limestone46 min
Oct 24, 10:48 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDDallas3 hr
Oct 24, 11:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFalls, Freestone, Limestone, Navarro, Robertson30 min
Oct 25, 7:02 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton13 hr
Oct 25, 8:52 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryFWDComanche, Eastland, Stephens, Young2 hr
Oct 25, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill40 min
Oct 25, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas, Mills52 min
Oct 25, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, Hamilton64 min
Oct 25, 3:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant25 min
Oct 25, 3:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque33 min
Oct 25, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, McLennan42 min
Oct 25, 4:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant29 min
Oct 25, 4:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMcLennan33 min
Oct 25, 4:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas29 min
Oct 25, 5:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLimestone30 min
Oct 25, 5:01 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDMcLennan3 hr
Oct 25, 5:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFreestone35 min
Oct 25, 5:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell37 min
Oct 25, 6:09 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell2 hr
Oct 25, 6:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell48 min
Oct 25, 6:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.