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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 5, 1998Hill County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 5, 1998, 7:45 PM CST for Hill County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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: Jan 5, 1998, 7:45 PM CST (01:45 UTC)
Expired: Jan 5, 1998, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Hill County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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
Jan 5, 8:01 PM CST	Hail 1	Whitney, 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 95 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

986 
WUUS1 KFTW 060146 RRA
SVRFTW
TXC217-060230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
745 PM CST MON JAN 5 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...HILL COUNTY
 
AT 745 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF WHITNEY MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  AS IT APPROACHES YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE MOVE TO STURDY SHELTER NOW.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 5, 7:17 PM CST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
717 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    CENTERVILLE               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   LEON

0609 PM    GOLDTHWAITE               TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MILLS

0645 PM    GOLDTHWAITE               TX   TORNADO
01/05/98   MILLS                          SHERRIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          HOUSE HEAVILY DAMAGED 5
                                          MILES NE OF GOLDTHWAITE.

Local storm report, Jan 5, 7:17 PM CST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
717 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    CENTERVILLE               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   LEON

0609 PM    GOLDTHWAITE               TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MILLS

0645 PM    GOLDTHWAITE               TX   TORNADO
01/05/98   MILLS                          SHERRIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          HOUSE HEAVILY DAMAGED 5
                                          MILES NE OF GOLDTHWAITE.

Local storm report, Jan 5, 7:35 PM CST, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
735 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    CHINA SPRINGS             TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MCLENNAN

0710 PM    PECAN WELLS               TX   FUNNEL CLOUD
01/05/98   HAMILTON

Local storm report, Jan 5, 7:35 PM CST, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
735 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    CHINA SPRINGS             TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MCLENNAN

0710 PM    PECAN WELLS               TX   FUNNEL CLOUD
01/05/98   HAMILTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 6:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	55 min
Jan 5, 6:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mills	54 min
Jan 5, 6:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Mills	3 hr
Jan 5, 6:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls	3 hr
Jan 5, 6:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	25 min
Jan 5, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	61 min
Jan 5, 7:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	54 min
Jan 5, 7:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hamilton	17 min
Jan 5, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Robertson	41 min
Jan 5, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	55 min
Jan 5, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	59 min
Jan 5, 7:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	26 min
Jan 5, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	42 min
Jan 5, 8:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	36 min
Jan 5, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	65 min
Jan 5, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	55 min
Jan 5, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	52 min
Jan 5, 8:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	3 hr
Jan 5, 9:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	62 min
Jan 5, 9:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	69 min
Jan 5, 9:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	2 hr
Jan 5, 9:42 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls	2 hr
Jan 5, 10:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson	115 min
Jan 5, 10:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	65 min
Jan 5, 10:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	62 min
Jan 5, 10:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	38 min
Jan 5, 10:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	2 hr
Jan 5, 11:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin	3 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	4 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan	4 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	4 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	4 hr
Jan 6, 12:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	63 min
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Kaufman	5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone, McLennan	5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	5 hr
Jan 6, 9:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	3 hr
Jan 6, 9:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	65 min
Jan 6, 10:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	62 min
Jan 6, 11:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Limestone, Milam	7 hr
Jan 6, 11:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	7 hr
Jan 6, 5:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Limestone, Navarro	7 hr
Jan 6, 5:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	7 hr

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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.