Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Jan 5, 1998, 7:49 PM CST (01:49 UTC)

Expired

Jan 5, 1998, 8:15 PM CST

In force

26 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County McLennan County, TX

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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.

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.

998 
WUUS1 KFTW 060151 RRA
SVRFTW
TXC309-060215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
749 PM CST MON JAN 5 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...MCLENNAN COUNTY
 
AT 749 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR MART. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL
AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AS IT MOVES NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
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.

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

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.