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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- May 27, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamar County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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, 1:47 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Paris, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 270630 RRA TORFTW TXC277-270730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 130 AM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...LAMAR COUNTY AT 130 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PARIS IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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 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 26, 11:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Grayson | 62 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, 1:52 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 |
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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.