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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1997, 6:56 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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 30, 1997, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bell County, TX
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, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 368 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
- 1790 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 302356 RRA TORFTW TXC027-310030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 656 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY AT 655 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER SALADO MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH. DPS IS TRACKING. A FUNNEL COULD NEAR THIS AREA AT THIS TIME. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
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, 7:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 30 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.