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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 362, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 30, 1998Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1998, 6:57 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
Aug 30, 1998, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hunt County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 1998-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Aug 29, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill, McLennan39 min
Aug 29, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam34 min
Aug 29, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill39 min
Aug 30, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson62 min
Aug 30, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin32 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.