Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 53, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1997, 9:20 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 70 min. 3 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
- Jun 13, 1997, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hunt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Greenville, TX | A brief tornado was reported. |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Muddig, TX | |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Muddig, TX | Strong winds damaged the roof and a wall of a home. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 4844 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 140222 RRA TORFTW TXC231-140330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 920 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... ...HUNT COUNTY AT 920 PM...RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTH OF GREENVILLE. PARENT STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hunt | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Rains | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 9:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 55 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.