Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1997, 8:21 AM CST for Hopkins County, Rains County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 2, 1997, 8:21 AM CST (14:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hopkins County, TX, Rains County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 8:40 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Brashear, 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 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 546 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Mar 2, 4:54 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
454 AM CST SUN MAR 02 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM HILLSBORO TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 HILL
1026 PM BELTON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 BELL
1030 PM 2 SE TEMPLE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 BELL MOBILE HOME WAS
OVERTURNED, TREES UPROOTED
AND WINDOWS BLOWN OUT BY
TSTM WIND
1030 PM 2 SE TEMPLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 BELL
1120 PM LOTT TX WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 FALLS A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN
1135 PM MARLIN TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 FALLS
1210 AM 10 E GOLDTHWAITE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/02/97 MILLS BARN WAS DAMAGED BY HIGH
WINDS
1230 AM 6 SW GROESBECK TX 1 INCH HAIL
03/02/97 LIMESTONE
0105 AM HAMILTON TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/02/97 HAMILTON
0205 AM 6 NE SCALLORN TX WIND DAMAGE
03/02/97 MILLS LARGE CEDAR TREES WERE
BROKEN OFF ABOVE THE
GROUND AND A BARN WAS
DAMAGEDLocal storm report, Mar 2, 4:55 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
454 AM CST SUN MAR 02 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM HILLSBORO TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 HILL
1026 PM BELTON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 BELL
1030 PM 2 SE TEMPLE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 BELL MOBILE HOME WAS
OVERTURNED, TREES UPROOTED
AND WINDOWS BLOWN OUT BY
TSTM WIND
1030 PM 2 SE TEMPLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 BELL
1120 PM LOTT TX WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 FALLS A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN
1135 PM MARLIN TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 FALLS
1210 AM 10 E GOLDTHWAITE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/02/97 MILLS BARN WAS DAMAGED BY HIGH
WINDS
1230 AM 6 SW GROESBECK TX 1 INCH HAIL
03/02/97 LIMESTONE
0105 AM HAMILTON TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/02/97 HAMILTON
0205 AM 6 NE SCALLORN TX WIND DAMAGE
03/02/97 MILLS LARGE CEDAR TREES WERE
BROKEN OFF ABOVE THE
~ GROUND AND A BARN WAS
DAMAGEDLocal storm report, Mar 2, 7:28 AM CST, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
728 AM CST SUN MAR 02 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0715 AM TX FLOODING
03/02/97 ERATH SOME COUNTY ROADS CLOSED
DUE TO HIGH WATER.
0717 AM TX FLOODING
03/02/97 LAMPASAS HIGH WATER PROBLEMS
COUNTYWIDE
0717 AM TX FLOODING
03/02/97 COMANCHE LOW LYING AREAS
FLOODED...SEVERAL COUNTY
ROADS REMAIN CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER.
0720 AM TX FLOODING
03/02/97 HAMILLTON SIDE STREETS CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER.Local storm report, Mar 2, 7:30 AM CST, 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
728 AM CST SUN MAR 02 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0715 AM TX FLOODING
03/02/97 ERATH SOME COUNTY ROADS CLOSED
DUE TO HIGH WATER.
0717 AM TX FLOODING
03/02/97 LAMPASAS HIGH WATER PROBLEMS
COUNTYWIDE
0717 AM TX FLOODING
03/02/97 COMANCHE LOW LYING AREAS
FLOODED...SEVERAL COUNTY
ROADS REMAIN CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER.
0720 AM TX FLOODING
03/02/97 HAMILLTON SIDE
STREETS CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 10:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 69 min |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 11:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 69 min |
| Mar 2, 12:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 58 min |
| Mar 2, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 1:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 68 min |
| Mar 2, 3:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas, Mills | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 9:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 12:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Erath | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 5:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 119 min |
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.