Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 20, 1997, 7:00 AM CST for Palo Pinto County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 20, 1997, 7:00 AM CST (13:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1997, 7:45 AM CST
- In force
- 45 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 13:18 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 5:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 201300 RRA SVRFTW TXC363-201345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 700 AM CST THU FEB 20 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...PALO PINTO COUNTY AT 700 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GORDON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS AS THIS STORM APPROACHES. 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.
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, Feb 20, 1:01 AM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1258 AM CST THU FEB 20 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 HAMILTON STREET FLOODING AND SOME
ROADS BARRICADED DUE TO
HIGH WATER
0450 PM PLANO TX FLOODING
02/19/97 COLLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS
LOTS OF STREETS FLOODED
0535 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 PARKER SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
PORTIONS OF WHITE
SETTLEMENT RD IN EASTERN
PARKER COUNTY WASHED AWAY
AND 2 CARS STRANDED
BETWEEN TWO LOW WATER
CROSSINGS
0600 PM LOLAVILLE TX FLOODING
02/19/97 COLLIN RACES REPORTED SH 121 AND
RAZOR RD HAD 1 FOOT OF
WATER OVER ROAD
0625 PM FARMERSVILLE TX FLOODING
02/19/97 COLLIN MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS ON
COUNTY ROADS
0705 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 JOHNSON NUMEROUS ROAD CLOSURES
COUNTY WIDE
0710 PM DALLAS TX FLOODING
02/19/97 DALLAS EOC REPORTS MAJOR STREETS
FLOODED
0844 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 HOOD FOUR FEET OF WATER OVER
SOME ROADS IN COUNTY
0847 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 SOMERVELL 2.5" OF WATER ABOVE LOW
WATER CROSSING. SEVERAL
LOW WATER CROSSINGS
IMPASSABLE.
0855 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 COOKE FM 371 NORTH OF US 82 HAD
WATER OVER ROAD.
0905 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 DENTON "UNUSUAL FLOODING" WITH
MANY PLACES FLOODED THAT
NORMALLY DO NOT FLOOD
0908 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 WISE FM 718, TX 114 AND
ANYTHING SOUTH OF US 380
HAD AREAS OF FLOODING
0910 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 DENTON SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED IN
COUNTY. TX 114 WEST OF US
377 HAS HIGH WATER
0925 PM GREENVILLE TX FLOODING
02/19/97 HUNT US 380 ON WEST SIDE OF
GREENVILLE NEARLY
IMPASSIBLE WITH 3 TO 5
INCHES OF WATER ON ROADWAY
0927 PM ROCKWALL TX FLOODING
02/19/97 ROCKWALL MIMMS ROAD IN ROCKWALL
CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER
0940 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 PARKER WIDESPREAD ROAD CLOSURES.
SMALL TRUCK TRIED TO CROSS
LOW WATER CROSSING WAS
RESCUED BY TREE.
0948 PM TX FLOODING
02/19/97 PALO PINTO NUMEROUS FARM TO MARKET
ROADS COUNTYWIDE WITH
WATER OVER ROAD
1010 PM JACKSBORO TX FLOODING
02/19/97 JACK STREET FLOODING REPORTED
IN JACKSBOROThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 6:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Wise | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Fannin, Hunt, Rockwall | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Johnson, Somervell | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Wise | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Somervell | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Somervell | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 68 min |
| Feb 20, 6:46 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Mills | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 8:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens, Young | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 8:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 9:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague, Wise | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 9:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 9:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 111 min |
| Feb 20, 11:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 111 min |
| Feb 20, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 42 min |
| Feb 20, 11:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 65 min |
| Feb 20, 1:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill, McLennan | 2 hr |
| Feb 20, 1:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill, McLennan | 2 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 116 min |
| Feb 20, 2:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas, Mills | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Erath, Somervell | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta | 4 hr |
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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.