Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1997, 11:58 PM CDT for Grayson County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 4 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 26, 1997, 11:58 PM CDT (04:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grayson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:59 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 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Pottsboro, TX | |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Pottsboro, TX | |
| May 27, 12:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Denison, TX | Strong winds destroyed an outdoor stage that was being used for a concert just a short time earlier. |
| May 27, 1:05 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sherman, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 6721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 18.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 270458 RRA TORFTW TXC181-270600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1158 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GRAYSON COUNTY AT 1158 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO FROM DENNISON TO WHITESBORO. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF POTTSBORO AT 1145 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDFY 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 26, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 58 min |
| May 26, 11:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Grayson | 46 min |
| May 26, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 69 min |
| May 27, 12:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 27, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 63 min |
| May 27, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 60 min |
| May 27, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 60 min |
| May 27, 1:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 60 min |
| May 27, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 68 min |
| May 27, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 68 min |
| May 27, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 55 min |
| May 27, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 39 min |
| May 27, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 43 min |
| May 27, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 33 min |
| May 27, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 42 min |
| May 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Navarro | 60 min |
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Navarro | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 47 min |
| May 27, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone | 54 min |
| May 27, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 47 min |
| May 27, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Limestone | 47 min |
| May 27, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 55 min |
| May 27, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Limestone, McLennan | 61 min |
| May 27, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Leon, Robertson | 69 min |
| May 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 30 min |
| May 27, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.