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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 26, 1997Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1997, 10:46 AM CDT for Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
Apr 26, 1997, 10:46 AM CDT (15:46 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1997, 11:15 AM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Limestone County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 1997-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Apr 26, 6:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-261700-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
600 AM CDT SAT APR 26 1997

RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA
TODAY. HOWEVER THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS.

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-261700-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
600 AM CDT SAT APR 26 1997

RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA
TODAY. HOWEVER THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 7:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson57 min
Apr 26, 9:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.