Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1997, 6:36 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- May 25, 1997, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Montague, TX | Trees were blown down by strong winds. |
| May 25, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Dye Mound, TX | A tornado destroyed two barns and a carport. |
| May 25, 7:28 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hardy, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.