Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1997, 7:15 AM CDT for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 30, 1997, 7:15 AM CDT (12:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1997, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Parker County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:14 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 30, 7:28 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Garner, TX | |
| May 30, 7:51 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Springtown, 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 30, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-301815- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 550 AM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS FOR TODAY AND FOR MAINLY SOUTHEAST PARTS THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. THE AIRMASS OVER NORTH TEXAS REMAINS DEEPLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING MAY PRODUCE A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF AN COMANCHE TO CANTON LINE. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX AND SHERMAN-PARIS AREAS. THIS STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN BY MID MORNING WHEN THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DECREASE. A COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE OVER THE RISK AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL LIKELY REIGNITE POTENTIAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. DAYTIME HEATING WILL FURTHER DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPS WILL GRADUALLY MOVE INTO THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES NORTH OF A CANTON TO COMANCHE LINE MAY BE ACTIVATED THIS MORNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED OVER THE REST OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-301815- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 550 AM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS FOR TODAY AND FOR MAINLY SOUTHEAST PARTS THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. THE AIRMASS OVER NORTH TEXAS REMAINS DEEPLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING MAY PRODUCE A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF AN COMANCHE TO CANTON LINE. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX AND SHERMAN-PARIS AREAS. THIS STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN BY MID MORNING WHEN THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DECREASE. A COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE OVER THE RISK AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL LIKELY REIGNITE POTENTIAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. DAYTIME HEATING WILL FURTHER DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPS WILL GRADUALLY MOVE INTO THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES NORTH OF A CANTON TO COMANCHE LINE MAY BE ACTIVATED THIS MORNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED OVER THE REST OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 2 hr |
| May 30, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 60 min |
| May 30, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 2 hr |
| May 30, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 62 min |
| May 30, 7:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 27 min |
| May 30, 7:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 69 min |
| May 30, 7:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 2 hr |
| May 30, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 60 min |
| May 30, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 15 min |
| May 30, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Tarrant | 63 min |
| May 30, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 32 min |
| May 30, 9:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 2 hr |
| May 30, 10:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 68 min |
| May 30, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 51 min |
| May 30, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 67 min |
| May 30, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 65 min |
| May 30, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 65 min |
| May 30, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 61 min |
| May 30, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 70 min |
| May 30, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 40 min |
| May 30, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls | 60 min |
| May 30, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 43 min |
| May 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 48 min |
| May 30, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 43 min |
| May 30, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 55 min |
| May 30, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 64 min |
| May 30, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rockwall | 68 min |
| May 30, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 34 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.