Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 621, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 2:04 AM CST for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min. 3 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 2:04 AM CST (08:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2:15 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Tennessee Colony, TX | |
| Nov 7, 2:25 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Palestine, TX | |
| Nov 7, 2:28 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Palestine, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 070806 SVRFTW TXC001-070845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 204 AM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...ANDERSON COUNTY AT 204 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CAYUGA TO LONG LAKE. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 50 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER CROSSING ROADWAYS.
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
Local storm report, Nov 6, 8:22 PM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
821 PM CST WED NOV 06 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0800 PM 3 N POTTSBORO TX FLOODING
11/06/96 GRAYSON HIGHWAY 120 CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER
0812 PM ANTELOPE TX .75 INCH HAIL
11/06/96 JACKSpecial weather statement, Nov 6, 11:35 PM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
TXZ115>117-129-070545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1133 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CLEARED STEPHENS... PALO PINTO AND EASTLAND COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 1111. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED IN THESE COUNTIES. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH TEXAS SOUTH AND EAST OF THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 4 AM. H
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 1:42 AM CST, 22 minutes before
TXZ102-117-130>132-141-070800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 142 AM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CLEARED WISE...PARKER ...HOOD...SOMERVELL..ERATH...AND EASTLAND COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 1111. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED IN THESE COUNTIES FOR TONIGHT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH TEXAS SOUTH AND EAST OF THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 4 AM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 6:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 7:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 60 min |
| Nov 6, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 27 min |
| Nov 6, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 49 min |
| Nov 6, 10:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 66 min |
| Nov 6, 10:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 10:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Grayson | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 11:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 57 min |
| Nov 6, 11:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 11:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 33 min |
| Nov 7, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, McLennan | 55 min |
| Nov 7, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 55 min |
| Nov 7, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Limestone, Navarro | 52 min |
| Nov 7, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 52 min |
| Nov 7, 12:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin | 4 hr |
| Nov 7, 12:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 47 min |
| Nov 7, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone, Navarro | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Milam, Robertson | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 2:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Grayson | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.