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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 25, 1997Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1997, 4:18 AM CST for Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
Mar 25, 1997, 4:18 AM CST (10:18 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1997, 5:15 AM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Mills County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 986 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
4.9

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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, Mar 25, 1:34 AM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
135 AM CST TUE MAR 25 1997

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

1232 ABM    BRECKENRIDGE              TX   3/4 INCH HAIL
03/02/97   STEPHENS
Local storm report, Mar 25, 1:35 AM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
135 AM CST TUE MAR 25 1997

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

1232 AM    BRECKENRIDGE              TX   3/4 INCH HAIL
03/02/97   STEPHENS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 12:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens68 min
Mar 25, 3:02 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker118 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.