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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 7:22 PM CDT for Leon County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leon 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, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 298 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
- 3458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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, 4 hours 32 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 BELLLocal storm report, May 27, 2:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 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 BELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 30 min |
| May 28, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 29 min |
| May 28, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 66 min |
| May 28, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 59 min |
| May 28, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains | 63 min |
| May 28, 4:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 4 hr |
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.