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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 338, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 23, 1997Freestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 23, 1997, 6:43 PM CDT for Freestone County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 23, 1997, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Oct 23, 1997, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Freestone County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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, 4:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
404 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0355 PM    MERIDIAN                  TX   70 MPH TSTM GUST
10/23/97   BOSQUE                         ESTIMATED 70 MPH WINDS BY
                                          RED CROSS

0358 PM    ENNIS                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   ELLIS                          GOLFBALL HAIL DOWNTOWN

Local storm report, Oct 23, 4:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
404 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0355 PM    MERIDIAN                  TX   70 MPH TSTM GUST
10/23/97   BOSQUE                         ESTIMATED 70 MPH WINDS BY
                                          RED CROSS

0358 PM    ENNIS                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL     0
10/23/97   ELLIS                          GOLFBALL HAIL DOWNTOWN

Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
520 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0515 PM    3 SW BRIDGEPORT           TX   1.5 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   WISE                           WALNUT SIZE HAIL IN TOWN

Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
520 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0515 PM    3 SW BRIDGEPORT           TX   1.5 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   WISE                           WALNUT SIZE HAIL IN TOWN

Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
528 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0520 PM    PARADISE                  TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   WISE                           GOLFBALL HAIL COVERING THE
                                          GROUND IN TOWN

Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
528 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0520 PM    PARADISE                  TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   WISE                           GOLFBALL HAIL COVERING THE
                                          GROUND IN TOWN

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, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	57 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, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	29 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.