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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1997, 9:40 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports 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
- May 8, 1997, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bridgeport, TX | Strong winds blew down power lines. |
| May 8, 10:29 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Boonsville, 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
324 WFUS1 KFTW 090240 RRA TORFTW TXC497-090330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 940 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WISE COUNTY AT 940 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR RUNAWAY BAY OR 5 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF BRIDGEPORT. A PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO HAS ALSO BEEN RECEIVED IN THIS AREA. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague | 57 min |
| May 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack | 61 min |
| May 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 61 min |
| May 8, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 59 min |
| May 8, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 64 min |
| May 8, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 66 min |
| May 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Parker, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| May 9, 12:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Somervell | 3 hr |
| May 9, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 4 hr |
| May 9, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Parker, Tarrant | 4 hr |
| May 9, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 4 hr |
| May 9, 2:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland | 4 hr |
| May 9, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.