Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Jun 17, 1997, 12:12 AM CDT (05:12 UTC)

Expired

Jun 17, 1997, 1:15 AM CDT

In force

63 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Hopkins County, TX, Rains County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 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.

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TTAA00 KFTW 170512 RRA
SVRFTW
TXC223-379-170615-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1212 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...HOPKINS COUNTY...RAINS COUNTY
 
AT 1212 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAKE TAWAKONI. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND
WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 TO 70 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
ADVANCEl 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.