Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1998, 8:26 PM CDT for Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Jun 12, 1998, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Stephens County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Breckenridge, TX | |
| Jun 12, 8:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Breckenridge, TX | Thunderstorm winds downed a radio tower, numerous trees, and powerlines. Cars were damaged by falling trees. In addition, signs and metal buildings were damaged. |
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 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 3579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.