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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 26, 1998Eastland County, Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 11:07 PM CDT for Eastland County, Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 2 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 26, 1998, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 11:10 PM CDTHail 0.88Gorman, TX
May 26, 11:10 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 70Gorman, 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 1998-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 655 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
655 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 26, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland56 min
May 26, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche65 min
May 26, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche35 min
May 26, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath65 min
May 27, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Somervell60 min
May 27, 1:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDErath, Hood, Somervell6 hr
May 27, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker52 min
May 27, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche64 min
May 27, 1:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker5 hr
May 27, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant63 min
May 27, 2:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant5 hr
May 27, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton61 min
May 27, 2:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis65 min
May 27, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Kaufman, Rockwall64 min
May 27, 3:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains68 min
May 27, 3:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins55 min
May 27, 4:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins25 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.