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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 27, 1997Robertson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 6:39 PM CDT for Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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: May 27, 1997, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Robertson County, TX

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 27, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.4

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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

Local storm report, May 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
250 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....

0154 PM    2 W LORENA                TX   TORNADO
05/27/97   MCLENNAN                       SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES
                                          DAMAGED AND ONE HOUSE
                                          DESTROYED

0159 PM    1 E MOODY                 TX   TORNADO
05/27/97   MCLENNAN                       BUILDINGS DAMAGED

0206 PM    EDDY                      TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   FALLS

0225 PM    TROY                      TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   BELL

0231 PM    BELTON                    TX   TORNADO
05/27/97   BELL

0240 PM    3 N BELTON                TX   TORNADO
05/27/97   BELL

Local storm report, May 27, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
250 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....

0154 PM    2 W LORENA                TX   TORNADO
05/27/97   MCLENNAN                       SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES
                                          DAMAGED AND ONE HOUSE
                                          DESTROYED

0159 PM    1 E MOODY                 TX   TORNADO
05/27/97   MCLENNAN                       BUILDINGS DAMAGED

0206 PM    EDDY                      TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   FALLS

0225 PM    TROY                      TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   BELL

0231 PM    BELTON                    TX   TORNADO
05/27/97   BELL

0240 PM    3 N BELTON                TX   TORNADO
05/27/97   BELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	58 min
May 26, 11:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Grayson	46 min
May 26, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	69 min
May 26, 11:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Grayson	62 min
May 27, 12:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Grayson	3 hr
May 27, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	63 min
May 27, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	60 min
May 27, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	60 min
May 27, 1:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Lamar	60 min
May 27, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	68 min
May 27, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	68 min
May 27, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	55 min
May 27, 1:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	McLennan	39 min
May 27, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	43 min
May 27, 1:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls	33 min
May 27, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	42 min
May 27, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Navarro	60 min
May 27, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	45 min
May 27, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Navarro	45 min
May 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	45 min
May 27, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	47 min
May 27, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone	54 min
May 27, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Navarro	47 min
May 27, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Limestone	47 min
May 27, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	55 min
May 27, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Limestone, McLennan	61 min
May 27, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Leon, Robertson	69 min
May 27, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	30 min

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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.