Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1997, 6:50 PM CDT for Cooke County, Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Jun 9, 1997, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1997, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cooke County, TX, Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Dexter, 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 Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1020 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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, Jun 9, 5:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
TXZ098>101-115-116-129-130-141>143-156-100600- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 511 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT OVER THE WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS...GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM TO WAXAHACHIE TO LAMPASAS. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS AREA ARE DENTON...SHERMAN...BROWNWOOD... MINERAL WELLS AND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND NORTH INTO OKLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE SOUTHEASTWARD ALONG THE RED RIVER. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA HAS BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE. AS A RESULT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP INTO THE RISK AREA THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE AS ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS IN THE THREAT AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. 76
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
TXZ098>101-115-116-129-130-141>143-156-100600- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 511 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT OVER THE WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS...GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM TO WAXAHACHIE TO LAMPASAS. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS AREA ARE DENTON...SHERMAN...BROWNWOOD... MINERAL WELLS AND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND NORTH INTO OKLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE SOUTHEASTWARD ALONG THE RED RIVER. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA HAS BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE. AS A RESULT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP INTO THE RISK AREA THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER.H..HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE AS ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS IN THE THREAT AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. 76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.