Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 6:44 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 16, 1997, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cooke County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 16, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Siuells Bend, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 3451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
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 16, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-170200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 355 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL SUNRISE TUESDAY MORNING ACROSS NORTH TEXAS WEST OF A LINE FROM PARIS TO MEXIA TO FRANKLIN. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PARIS...SHERMAN... GAINESVILLE ...MINERAL WELLS...THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX ...GREENVILLE...STEPHENVILLE...HAMILTON...AND WACO/TEMPLE/KILLEEN. THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS HAS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. A WARM...MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS CONTINUES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS WITH DEEP MOISTURE EXTENDING FROM THE SURFACE TO 10,000 FEET. AN UNUSUALLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR WAS MOVING OUT OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND WILL RESULT IN FURTHER DESTABILIZATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE. A WEAK SURFACE WINDSHIFT BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM NEAR GAINESVILLE SOUTHWESTWARD TO ABILENE...AND THIS BOUNDARY WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR INITIAL STORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EARLY EVENING. AS THE ATMOSPHERE COOLS ALOFT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND MOVE EAST ACROSS THE RISK AREA TO NEAR A PARIS TO DALLAS TO WACO LINE BY MIDNIGHT AND INTO THE SLIGHT RISK AREA DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS TUESDAY. SUFFICIENT WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY ARE PRESENT FOR A FEW TORNADOES ...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE MODERATE RISK AREA...BUT THE GREATER THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WILL BE ANOTHER CONCERN...ESPECIALLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE STORMS ENCOUNTER INCREASINGLY DEEP LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTORS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS WEST OF A MONTAGUE TO STEPHENVILLE TO LAMPASAS LINE MAY BE ACTIVATED BETWEEN 5 AND 7 PM...WEST OF A PARIS TO KAUFMAN TO CAMERON LINE BETWEEN 7 PM AND MIDNIGHT..AND ELSEWHERE IN THE RISK AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-170200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 355 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL SUNRISE TUESDAY MORNING ACROSS NORTH TEXAS WEST OF A LINE FROM PARIS TO MEXIA TO FRANKLIN. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PARIS...SHERMAN... GAINESVILLE ...MINERAL WELLS...THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX ...GREENVILLE...STEPHENVILLE...HAMILTON...AND WACO/TEMPLE/KILLEEN. THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS HAS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. A WARM...MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS CONTINUES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS WITH DEEP MOISTURE EXTENDING FROM THE SURFACE TO 10,000 FEET. AN UNUSUALLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR WAS MOVING OUT OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND WILL RESULT IN FURTHER DESTABILIZATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE. A WEAK SURFACE WINDSHIFT BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM NEAR GAINESVILLE SOUTHWESTWARD TO ABILENE...AND THIS BOUNDARY WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR INITIAL STORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EARLY EVENING. AS THE ATMOSPHERE COOLS ALOFT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND MOVE EAST ACROSS THE RISK AREA TO NEAR A PARIS TO DALLAS TO WACO LINE BY MIDNIGHT AND INTO THE SLIGHT RISK AREA DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS TUESDAY. SUFFICIENT WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY ARE PRESENT FOR A FEW TORNADOES ...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE MODERATE RISK AREA...BUT THE GREATER THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WILL BE ANOTHER CONCERN...ESPECIALLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE STORMS ENCOUNTER INCREASINGLY DEEP LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTORS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS WEST OF A MONTAGUE TO STEPHENVILLE TO LAMPASAS LINE MAY BE ACTIVATED BETWEEN 5 AND 7 PM...WEST OF A PARIS TO KAUFMAN TO CAMERON LINE BETWEEN 7 PM AND MIDNIGHT..AND ELSEWHERE IN THE RISK AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.