Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1987, 6:40 PM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1987, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1987, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamar County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 23, 5:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 510 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES IN NORTH TEXAS ALONG THE RED RIVER UNTIL 900 PM CDT TONIGHT. AT 510 PM RADARS INDICATED A LINE A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE RED RIVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD CROSS THE RED RIVER BY 530 TO 600 PM. IF YOU ARE IN RED RIVER...LAMAR...FANNIN...GRAYSON OR COOKE COUNTIES ...YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK-OUT FOR THESE APPROACHING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED 1 INCH HAIL IN OKLAHOMA. EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 540 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES IN NORTH TEXAS AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA NEAR THE RED RIVER UNTIL 900 PM CDT TONIGHT. AT 540 PM...RADARS INDICATED A LINE A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE RED RIVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD CROSS THE RED RIVER AROUND 600 PM. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN DURANT AND HUGO OKLAHOMA. IF YOU ARE IN RED RIVER...LAMAR...FANNIN...GRAYSON OR COOKE COUNTIES ...YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK-OUT FOR THESE APPROACHING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED 1 INCH HAIL IN OKLAHOMA. EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Lamar | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Fannin | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Clay | 25 min |
| Jun 23, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Titus | 55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.