Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 54, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT for Rains 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
- Jun 13, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rains County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Emory, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 140230 RRA TORFTW TXC379-140330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 930 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... ...RAINS COUNTY AT 930 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 3 MILES SOUTH OF EMORY. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hunt | 70 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.