Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 1997, 7:32 PM CDT for Lampasas County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 20, 1997, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lampasas County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Nix, TX | |
| Apr 20, 8:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Nix, TX | Power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| Apr 20, 8:21 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Nix, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 210032 RRA TORFTW TXC281-210115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 732 PM CDT SUN APR 20 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...LAMPASAS COUNTY AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR LOMETA. STORM SPOTTERS WERE ALSO INDICATING A FUNNEL CLOUD. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 66 min |
| Apr 20, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 58 min |
| Apr 20, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 62 min |
| Apr 20, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker | 65 min |
| Apr 20, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 65 min |
| Apr 20, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Wise | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 55 min |
| Apr 20, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 61 min |
| Apr 20, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 35 min |
| Apr 20, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 61 min |
| Apr 20, 9:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 117 min |
| Apr 20, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 54 min |
| Apr 20, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 65 min |
| Apr 20, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 33 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.