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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 8, 1998Palo Pinto County, Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1998, 8:37 AM CDT for Palo Pinto County, Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 8, 1998, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1998, 9:30 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1998-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 383 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1998-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 353 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
353 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
696 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
7.3

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto55 min
Jun 7, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker58 min
Jun 7, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague58 min
Jun 8, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson50 min

Nearby

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

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.