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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 23, 1997Anderson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 23, 1997, 7:22 PM CDT for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired: Oct 23, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Anderson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 177 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 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

134 
WUUS1 KFTW 240021 RRA
SVRFTW
TXC001-240130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
722 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...ANDERSON COUNTY
 
AT 720 PM...RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO ANDERSON
COUNTY FROM THE WEST. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH
THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVED THROUGH RICHLAND AROUND 635 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
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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, 3 hours 18 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, 3 hours 17 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, 2 hours 2 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, 2 hours 1 minute 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 54 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 53 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

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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.