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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1997Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1997, 8:30 AM CDT for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 15 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 30, 1997, 8:30 AM CDT (13:30 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1997, 8:45 AM CDT
In force
15 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 13:30 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 30, 8:40 AM CDTHail 0.75Weatherford, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 30, 6:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1997-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 87 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1997-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

609 
WFUS1 KFTW 301332 RRA
TORFTW
TXC367-301345-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
830 AM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
   ...PARKER COUNTY
 
AT 830 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF
ALEDO...MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 5:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack2 hr
May 30, 5:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague60 min
May 30, 5:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise2 hr
May 30, 6:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker62 min
May 30, 7:15 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker30 min
May 30, 7:18 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker27 min
May 30, 7:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant69 min
May 30, 7:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant, Wise2 hr
May 30, 8:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker60 min
May 30, 8:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Johnson, Tarrant63 min
May 30, 8:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker32 min
May 30, 9:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant2 hr
May 30, 10:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant68 min
May 30, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke51 min
May 30, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton67 min
May 30, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack65 min
May 30, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque65 min
May 30, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto61 min
May 30, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, McLennan70 min
May 30, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMcLennan40 min
May 30, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Falls60 min
May 30, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCoryell43 min
May 30, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell48 min
May 30, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt43 min
May 30, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt55 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell64 min
May 30, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman, Rockwall68 min
May 30, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell34 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.