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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 8, 1998Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 11:22 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 5 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
May 8, 1998, 11:22 PM CDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1998, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:21 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 8, 11:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 70Merit, TXThunderstorm winds damaged roofs and downed trees.
May 8, 11:39 PM CDTHail 0.88Greenville, TX
May 8, 11:39 PM CDTThunderstorm WindGreenville, TXThunderstorm winds damaged roofs on two houses.
May 8, 11:41 PM CDTHail 0.88Kingston, TX
May 8, 11:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61Greenville, TXThunderstorm winds downed large limbs, fences, and powerlines.

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 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, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant49 min
May 8, 10:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant117 min
May 8, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas48 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.