Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Jun 16, 1997, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)

Expired

Jun 16, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Denton County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 170026 RRA
SVRFTW
TXC121-170115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
728 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...DENTON COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE LEWISVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT
15 MILES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN FLOWER MOUND AND THE COLONY ARE IN THE
PATH OF THE STORM.
 
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL.
 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS nOF NORTH TEXAS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.