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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 8, 1998Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 10:41 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 8, 1998, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1998, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 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 8, 11:10 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61Ft Worth, TXThunderstorm wind gust reported in Edgecliff Village.

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 8, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 7 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 Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 193 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
576 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack50 min
May 8, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise65 min
May 8, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung58 min
May 8, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise25 min
May 8, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack63 min
May 8, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens29 min
May 8, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDenton38 min
May 8, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens, Young62 min
May 8, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker40 min
May 8, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Denton59 min
May 8, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant67 min
May 8, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker29 min
May 8, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt45 min
May 8, 10:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTarrant35 min
May 8, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker47 min
May 8, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills44 min
May 8, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin54 min
May 8, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin37 min
May 8, 10:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant117 min
May 8, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas48 min
May 8, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt53 min
May 8, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Rockwall55 min
May 8, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta46 min
May 8, 11:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman53 min
May 8, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins46 min
May 9, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt49 min
May 9, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt55 min
May 9, 1:01 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDVan Zandt14 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.