Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1997, 4:50 PM CDT for Coryell County, McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 70 min. 5 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 30, 1997, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coryell County, TX, McLennan County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 30, 5:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Gregor, TX | Trees were blown down by strong winds. |
| May 30, 5:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Moody, TX | Strong winds damaged an outbuilding and uprooted small trees. |
| May 30, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Oglesby, TX | A tornado developed near Oglesby, moved south for 5 miles and dissipated near Mother Neff State Park. Along the tornado's path a home received major damage, siding was removed from a church, several barns and outbuildings were destroyed, numerous large trees |
| May 30, 5:54 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Oglesby, TX | |
| May 30, 5:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Oglesby, TX | Strong winds blew down trees. |
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 Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 363 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 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
Special weather statement, May 30, 10:50 AM CDT, 6 hours before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-301630- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1050 AM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CLEARED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NORTH OF A BRECKENRIDGE TO DALLAS TO CANTON LINE SINCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: COLLIN COOKE DALLAS DENTON FANNIN GRAYSON HUNT JACK KAUFMAN MONTAGUE PALO PINTO PARKER ROCKWALL STEPHENS TARRANT YOUNG DELTA HOPKINS RAINS VAN ZANDT
Special weather statement, May 30, 11:50 AM CDT, 5 hours before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-310000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1150 AM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND FOR MAINLY SOUTHEAST PARTS THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. THE AIRMASS OVER NORTH TEXAS REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE RISK AREA THIS AFTERNOON WITH FURTHER DESTABILIZATION LIKELY DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING. RE-DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF SHEAR IN THE LOWEST PORTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL SHIFT INTO THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES NORTH OF A COMANCHE...TO CANTON LINE MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED AFTER 1230 PM. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY SOUTH OF THIS LINE AFTER 300 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 76
Special weather statement, May 30, 11:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-310000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1150 AM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND FOR MAINLY SOUTHEAST PARTS THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. THE AIRMASS OVER NORTH TEXAS REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE RISK AREA THIS AFTERNOON WITH FURTHER DESTABILIZATION LIKELY DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING. RE-DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF SHEAR IN THE LOWEST PORTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL SHIFT INTO THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES NORTH OF A COMANCHE...TO CANTON LINE MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED AFTER 1230 PM. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY SOUTH OF THIS LINE AFTER 300 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 2 hr |
| May 30, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 60 min |
| May 30, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 2 hr |
| May 30, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 62 min |
| May 30, 7:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 30 min |
| May 30, 7:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 27 min |
| May 30, 7:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 69 min |
| May 30, 7:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 2 hr |
| May 30, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 60 min |
| May 30, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 15 min |
| May 30, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Tarrant | 63 min |
| May 30, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 32 min |
| May 30, 9:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 2 hr |
| May 30, 10:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 68 min |
| May 30, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 51 min |
| May 30, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 67 min |
| May 30, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 65 min |
| May 30, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 65 min |
| May 30, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 61 min |
| May 30, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 40 min |
| May 30, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls | 60 min |
| May 30, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 43 min |
| May 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 48 min |
| May 30, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 43 min |
| May 30, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 55 min |
| May 30, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 64 min |
| May 30, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rockwall | 68 min |
| May 30, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 34 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.