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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 14, 1997Anderson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 1:45 AM CDT for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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 14, 1997, 1:45 AM CDT (06:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1997, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Anderson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 2:00 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Palestine, TXStrong winds blew down trees.
Jun 14, 2:00 AM CDTHail 0.75Bois D Arc, TX
Jun 14, 2:00 AM CDTHail 1Palestine, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 1997-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4844 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt62 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Hunt4 hr
Jun 13, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins2 hr
Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt64 min
Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHunt59 min
Jun 13, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt60 min
Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHunt70 min
Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDRains60 min
Jun 13, 9:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt4 hr
Jun 13, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt64 min
Jun 13, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton65 min
Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt4 hr
Jun 13, 11:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant66 min
Jun 13, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt62 min
Jun 13, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman61 min
Jun 14, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro60 min
Jun 14, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson59 min
Jun 14, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson27 min
Jun 14, 3:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon55 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.