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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 17, 1987Leon County, Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1987, 6:56 PM CDT for Leon County, Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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: Jun 17, 1987, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1987, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 17, 7:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Leon, TX

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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 17, 1:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 17, 2:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 17, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:38 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
630 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS
EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND EAST TEXAS INCLUDING THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
   ...BOSQUE...HILL...LIMESTONE...FALLS...MCLENNAN...LEON...
    BRAZOS...ROBERTSON...AND MADISON. THIS INCLUDES WACO AND
    BRYAN/COLLEGE...

AT 6:25 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF VERY
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM DALLAS...TO 10 MILES EAST OF CORSICANA...
TO SOUTHEAST OF CROCKETT. THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING
RAPIDLY SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO LEON AND PORTIONS OF MADISON...
LIMESTONE...AND HILL COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.
PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED FOR QUICK ACTION SHOULD
SEVERE WEATHER BE SPOTTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Camp	40 min
Jun 17, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	52 min
Jun 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	62 min
Jun 17, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	53 min
Jun 17, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	46 min
Jun 17, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	62 min
Jun 17, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	52 min
Jun 17, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Navarro	39 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.