Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1997, 8:45 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 15 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
- May 25, 1997, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 4787 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.1
- Supercell composite
- 22.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
269 WFUS1 KFTW 260146 RRA TORFTW TXC337-260200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 845 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...EASTERN MONTAGUE COUNTY THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN MONTAGUE COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 900 PM. SEVERAL TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY SPOTTERS IN THE SAINT JO AREA OF EXTREME EASTERN MONTAGUE COUNTY...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. THE TORNADIC STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE MUENSTER AREA OF WESTERN COOKE COUNTY BY 915 PM. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 38 min |
| May 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 50 min |
| May 25, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 60 min |
| May 25, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 28 min |
| May 25, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Grayson | 64 min |
| May 25, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 61 min |
| May 25, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 64 min |
| May 25, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 44 min |
| May 25, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 61 min |
| May 25, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Grayson | 37 min |
| May 25, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin | 42 min |
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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.