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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 16, 1997Palo Pinto County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 10:03 PM CDT for Palo Pinto County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Palo Pinto County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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 16, 10:45 PM CDTThunderstorm WindMineral Wells, TXStrong winds blew down power lines. A tree was blown onto a car resulting in minor damage.

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 16, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 1997-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5256 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 1997-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
5256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
2.3

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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 16, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas60 min
Jun 16, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton47 min
Jun 16, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin65 min
Jun 16, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto63 min
Jun 16, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche63 min
Jun 16, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Rockwall52 min
Jun 16, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant49 min
Jun 16, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland62 min
Jun 16, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise45 min
Jun 16, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell43 min
Jun 16, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker56 min
Jun 16, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton51 min
Jun 16, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDThrockmorton48 min
Jun 16, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant69 min
Jun 16, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton3 hr
Jun 16, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung44 min
Jun 16, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens64 min
Jun 16, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack57 min
Jun 16, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant62 min
Jun 16, 10:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
Jun 16, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant61 min
Jun 16, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt57 min
Jun 16, 11:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
Jun 16, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Johnson63 min
Jun 17, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Rains63 min
Jun 17, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche29 min
Jun 17, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton67 min
Jun 17, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas60 min
Jun 17, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman63 min
Jun 17, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt61 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.