Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 23, 1997, 3:18 PM CDT for Ellis 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
- Oct 23, 1997, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellis County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 3:58 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ennis, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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
Local storm report, Oct 23, 9:52 AM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
952 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 AM TEMPLE TX 1 INCH HAIL
10/23/97 BELL QUARTER HAIL. SPOTTER
REPORT THRU KCEN-TV IN
TEMPLELocal storm report, Oct 23, 9:54 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
952 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 AM TEMPLE TX 1 INCH HAIL
10/23/97 BELL QUARTER HAIL. SPOTTER
REPORT THRU KCEN-TV IN
TEMPLELocal storm report, Oct 23, 10:29 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1029 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 AM CHILTON TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/23/97 FALLS DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER
1025 AM FORT WORTH TX FLOODING
10/23/97 TARRANT FLOODING BEGINNING TO
OCCUR IN THE 500 BLOCK OF
NORTHWEST 28TH STREET
1027 AM EULESS TX FLOODING
10/23/97 TARRANT FLOODING BEGINNING IN
STREETSLocal storm report, Oct 23, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1029 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 AM CHILTON TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/23/97 FALLS DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER
1025 AM FORT WORTH TX FLOODING
10/23/97 TARRANT FLOODING BEGINNING TO
OCCUR IN THE 500 BLOCK OF
NORTHWEST 28TH STREET
1027 AM EULESS TX FLOODING
10/23/97 TARRANT FLOODING BEGINNING IN
STREETSSpecial weather statement, Oct 23, 11:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ147-148-156>162-174-175-231815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1108 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT SOUTH OF A GOLDTHWAITE TO HILLSBORO TO TYLER LINE UNTIL 3 PM... AT 1108 AM...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT. THE STORMS THAT PRODUCED HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IN BELL AND FALLS COUNTIES HAS MOVED EAST AND WEAKENED IN HENDERSON AND FREESTONE COUNTIES. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING TO THE WEST OF THE AREA...AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE REGION...INCLUDING TORNADOES...EXIST THIS AFTERNOON. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH.
Special weather statement, Oct 23, 11:14 AM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ147-148-156>162-174-175-231815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1108 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT SOUTH OF A GOLDTHWAITE TO HILLSBORO TO TYLER LINE UNTIL 3 PM... AT 1108 AM...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT. THE STORMS THAT PRODUCED HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IN BELL AND FALLS COUNTIES HAS MOVED EAST AND WEAKENED IN HENDERSON AND FREESTONE COUNTIES. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING TO THE WEST OF THE AREA...AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE REGION...INCLUDING TORNADOES...EXIST THIS AFTERNOON. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 9:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 57 min |
| Oct 23, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 60 min |
| Oct 23, 10:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 98 min |
| Oct 23, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 66 min |
| Oct 23, 10:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 11:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 12:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hamilton | 119 min |
| Oct 23, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 46 min |
| Oct 23, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque | 54 min |
| Oct 23, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 45 min |
| Oct 23, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 61 min |
| Oct 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 60 min |
| Oct 23, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 59 min |
| Oct 23, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 67 min |
| Oct 23, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 64 min |
| Oct 23, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 60 min |
| Oct 23, 4:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill, Navarro | 116 min |
| Oct 23, 4:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 116 min |
| Oct 23, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 39 min |
| Oct 23, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Anderson | 33 min |
| Oct 23, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 26 min |
| Oct 23, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 67 min |
| Oct 23, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 53 min |
| Oct 23, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 84 min |
| Oct 23, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 62 min |
| Oct 23, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 29 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.