Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 11:43 PM CDT for Van Zandt County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 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
- Jun 13, 1997, 11:43 PM CDT (04:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 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 13, 11:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Van, TX | Large trees were blown down by strong winds. |
| Jun 14, 12:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Van, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 4844 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 140443 RRA SVRFTW TXC467-140545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1143 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...VAN ZANDT COUNTY AT 1143 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN VAN AND EDOM. ONE INCH HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hunt | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hunt | 70 min |
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Rains | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 9:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 55 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.