Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 10:06 PM CST (04:06 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 11:15 PM CST

In force

69 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Bell County, TX

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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TTAA00 KFTW 020406 RRA
SVRFTW
TXC027-020515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1006 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BELL COUNTY
 
AT 1004 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER STILLHOUSE HOLLOW RESERVOIR LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF
KILLEEN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IN
BELTON AND TEMPLE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.  DO NOT DRIVE
INTO WATER CROSSING ROADWAYS.

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
940 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

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

0805 PM@    HILLSBORO                 TX   DIME HAIL
03/01/97   HILL

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
940 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

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

0805 PM    HILLSBORO                 TX   DIME HAIL
03/01/97   HILL

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.