Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 4 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
- Jun 9, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Montague County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Nocona, TX | |
| Jun 9, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 | Nocona, TX | |
| Jun 9, 6:48 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Nocona, TX | Thunderstorm winds downed trees. No dollar estimate of damage was reported. |
| Jun 9, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | St Jo, TX | Thunderstorm winds downed trees. No dollar estimate of damage was reported. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 9, 1:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>120-129>132-141>143-156-100000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 316 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM PARIS TO SULPHUR SPRINGS TO DALLAS TO GRANBURY TO LAMPASAS. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SHERMAN...PARIS... GAINESVILLE...BOWIE...THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX...MINERAL WELLS...BRECKENRIDGE...EASTLAND...AND COMANCHE. LATE THIS AFTERNOON A DRY LINE EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHWEST TEXAS FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA FALLS TO EAST OF MIDLAND. STRONG AFTERNOON HEATING HAS RESULTED IN THE MID LEVEL CAPPING INVERSION ACROSS WESTERN PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS BEING BROKEN...AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY BETWEEN WICHITA FALLS AND LUBBOCK. DUE TO THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT EAST OF THE DRY LINE... STRONG VERTICAL WIND SHEAR...AND MODERATELY STRONG MID LEVEL WINDS...THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE AND SPREAD EASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SUPERCELLS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL... HIGH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALREADY IN EFFECT GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM GAINESVILLE TO STEPHENVILLE UNTIL 900 PM. EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN THE WATCH AREA MAY NEED ACTIVATION BY 900 PM...AND TO THE EAST OF THIS LINE AFTER 900 PM. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER FOR THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>120-129>132-141>143-156-100000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 316 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM PARIS TO SULPHUR SPRINGS TO DALLAS TO GRANBURY TO LAMPASAS. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SHERMAN...PARIS... GAINESVILLE...BOWIE...THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX...MINERAL WELLS...BRECKENRIDGE...EASTLAND...AND COMANCHE. LATE THIS AFTERNOON A DRY LINE EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHWEST TEXAS FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA FALLS TO EAST OF MIDLAND. STRONG AFTERNOON HEATING HAS RESULTED IN THE MID LEVEL CAPPING INVERSION ACROSS WESTERN PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS BEING BROKEN...AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY BETWEEN WICHITA FALLS AND LUBBOCK. DUE TO THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT EAST OF THE DRY LINE... STRONG VERTICAL WIND SHEAR...AND MODERATELY STRONG MID LEVEL WINDS...THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE AND SPREAD EASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SUPERCELLS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL... HIGH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALREADY IN EFFECT GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM GAINESVILLE TO STEPHENVILLE UNTIL 900 PM. EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN THE WATCH AREA MAY NEED ACTIVATION BY 900 PM...AND TO THE EAST OF THIS LINE AFTER 900 PM. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER FOR THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
WIND ADVISORY...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 335 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1998 TXZ091>095-101>107-116>123-130>135-143>148-156>162-174-175-092300- ATHENS-BONHAM-BOWIE-CAMERON-CANTON-CENTERVILLE-CLEBURNE-COOPER- CORSICANA-DALLAS-DECATUR-DENTON-EMORY-FAIRFIELD-FRANKLIN-FT WORTH- GAINESVILLE-GATESVILLE-GLEN ROSE-GRANBURY-GREENVILLE-GROESBECK- HAMILTON-HILLSBORO-JACKSBORO-LAMPASAS-MARLIN-MCKINNEY-MERIDIAN- MINERAL WELLS-PALESTINE-PARIS-ROCKWALL-SHERMAN-STEPHENVILLE- SULPHUR SPRINGS-TEMPLE-TERRELL-WACO-WAXAHACHIE-WEATHERFORD- 335 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY THAT HAS BEEN IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS. HOWEVER... GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TONIGHT IN THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF NORTH TEXAS. CAUTION ON AREA LAKES WILL NEED TO BE EXERCISED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
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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.