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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1997Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 30, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 30, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 230 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1997-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 925 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1997-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
925 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

733 
WUUS1 KFTW 302302 RRA
SVRFTW
TXC231-302345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
602 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...HUNT COUNTY
 
AT 600 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
CELESTE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS THNDERSTORM THREATENS
GREENVILLE.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.  DO NOT DRIVE
INTO WATER CROSSING ROADWAYS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 5:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack2 hr
May 30, 5:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague60 min
May 30, 5:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise2 hr
May 30, 6:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker62 min
May 30, 7:15 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker30 min
May 30, 7:18 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker27 min
May 30, 7:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant69 min
May 30, 7:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant, Wise2 hr
May 30, 8:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker60 min
May 30, 8:30 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker15 min
May 30, 8:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Johnson, Tarrant63 min
May 30, 8:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker32 min
May 30, 9:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant2 hr
May 30, 10:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant68 min
May 30, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke51 min
May 30, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton67 min
May 30, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack65 min
May 30, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque65 min
May 30, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto61 min
May 30, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, McLennan70 min
May 30, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMcLennan40 min
May 30, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Falls60 min
May 30, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCoryell43 min
May 30, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell48 min
May 30, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt55 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell64 min
May 30, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman, Rockwall68 min
May 30, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.