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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 5, 1998Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 9:24 AM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1998, 9:24 AM CDT (14:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1998, 10:30 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bell County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 102 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 237 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-619 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
351 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

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

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson58 min
Jun 4, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDErath, Somervell31 min
Jun 4, 7:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson3 hr
Jun 4, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke25 min
Jun 4, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas64 min
Jun 4, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas77 min
Jun 4, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Grayson54 min
Jun 4, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson96 min
Jun 4, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell47 min
Jun 4, 8:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Somervell3 hr
Jun 4, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant33 min
Jun 4, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell56 min
Jun 4, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Hill56 min
Jun 4, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, McLennan61 min
Jun 4, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Hunt42 min
Jun 4, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas67 min
Jun 4, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Lamar, Rains61 min
Jun 4, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman85 min
Jun 4, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro85 min
Jun 4, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell65 min
Jun 4, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill63 min
Jun 4, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt68 min
Jun 4, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, McLennan62 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Limestone60 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone60 min
Jun 4, 10:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan3 hr
Jun 4, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro63 min
Jun 4, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson55 min
Jun 4, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan35 min
Jun 4, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone62 min
Jun 5, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills60 min
Jun 5, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton67 min
Jun 5, 3:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell56 min
Jun 5, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Coryell, McLennan53 min
Jun 5, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker61 min
Jun 5, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone, McLennan64 min
Jun 5, 4:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, McLennan64 min
Jun 5, 5:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Leon, Limestone65 min
Jun 5, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam31 min
Jun 5, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam31 min
Jun 5, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRobertson29 min
Jun 5, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.