Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 7:27 PM CST for Hill County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 7:27 PM CST (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hill County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:05 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Hillsboro, 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 nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
425 WUUS1 KFTW 020126 RRA SVRFTW TXC217-020215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 727 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...HILL COUNTY AT 727 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HILLSBORO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. AS IT APPROACHES YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE MOVE TO STURDY SHELTER NOW.
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
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 3:50 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ093>095-104>107-118>123-133-134-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 350 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH 75 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THAT PORTION OF TORNADO WATCH 75 GENERALLY TO THE WEST OF A CLARKSVILLE...TO QUITMAN...TO CANTON LINE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... LAMAR... DELTA... HOPKINS... RAINS...VAN ZANDT AND COUNTIES TO THE WEST. 76
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 3:52 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ093>095-104>107-118>123-133-134-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 350 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH #75 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THAT PORTION OF TORNADO WATCH #75 GENERALLY TO THE WEST OF A CLARKSVILLE...TO QUITMAN...TO CANTON LINE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... LAMAR... DELTA... HOPKINS... RAINS...VAN ZANDT AND COUNTIES TO THE WEST. 76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 10:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 69 min |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 11:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 69 min |
| Mar 2, 12:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 58 min |
| Mar 2, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 1:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 68 min |
| Mar 2, 3:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas, Mills | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 8:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 69 min |
| Mar 2, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 9:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 12:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Erath | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 5:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 119 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.