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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 9, 1997Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1997, 11:34 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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: Jun 9, 1997, 11:34 PM CDT (04:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1997, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 9, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 55 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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, Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
810 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0714 PM    WHITESBORO                TX   1 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   GRAYSON

0730 PM    5 W SHERMAN               TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/97   GRAYSON                        LARGE TREE LIMBS SNAPPED

0735 PM    HOWE                      TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   GRAYSON

0745 PM    TOM BEAN                  TX   3 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   GRAYSON

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
855 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0805 PM    PILOT GROVE               TX   3 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   GRAYSON

0805 PM    PILOT GROVE               TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/97   GRAYSON                        ROOF DAMAGE TO HOMES

0805 PM    PILOT GROVE               TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/97   GRAYSON                        MOBILE HOME DESTROYED

0820 PM    DENISON                   TX   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/97   GRAYSON

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
855 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0805 PM    PILOT GROVE               TX   3 INCH HAIL
06/09/97   GRAYSON

0805 PM    PILOT GROVE               TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/97   GRAYSON                        ROOF DAMAGE TO HOMES

0805 PM    PILOT GROVE               TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/97   GRAYSON                        MOBILE HOME DESTROYED

0820 PM    DENISON                   TX   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/97   GRAYSON

Local storm report, Jun 9, 11:10 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	53 min
Jun 9, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson	61 min
Jun 9, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	63 min
Jun 9, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	60 min
Jun 9, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	69 min
Jun 9, 9:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas	3 hr
Jun 9, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	60 min
Jun 9, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	66 min
Jun 9, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	69 min
Jun 10, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	56 min
Jun 10, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	66 min
Jun 10, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	64 min
Jun 10, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	44 min
Jun 10, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	67 min
Jun 10, 2:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	40 min
Jun 10, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	54 min
Jun 10, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	40 min
Jun 10, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	58 min
Jun 10, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	51 min
Jun 10, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	41 min
Jun 10, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	39 min
Jun 10, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.