Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 387, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1998, 11:58 PM CDT for Hood County, Somervell County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- Oct 2, 1998, 11:58 PM CDT (04:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 1998, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hood County, TX, Somervell County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 2565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.2
- Supercell composite
- 26.4
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
Local storm report, Oct 2, 6:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
610 PM CDT FRI OCT 02 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0555 PM 3 NE GRAHAM TX TORNADO
10/02/98 YOUNG NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
BETWEEN GRAHAM AND BRYSON
(JACK CO)
0557 PM BRYSON , TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 JACK 60-70 MPH WINDS AND DIME
HAILLocal storm report, Oct 2, 6:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
610 PM CDT FRI OCT 02 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0555 PM 3 NE GRAHAM TX TORNADO
10/02/98 YOUNG NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
BETWEEN GRAHAM AND BRYSON
(JACK CO)
0557 PM BRYSON , TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 JACK 60-70 MPH WINDS AND DIME
HAILLocal storm report, Oct 2, 6:50 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
650 PM CDT FRI OCT 02 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0538 PM LEWISVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 DENTON MINOR DAMAGE TO A
RESIDENCE
0632 PM CRYSTAL FALLS TX 1 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 STEPHENS QUARTER HAILLocal storm report, Oct 2, 10:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1039 PM CDT FRI OCT 02 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0755 PM RHOME TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 WISE TRAVEL TRAILER BLOWN OVER,
TREE LIMBS BROKEN, POWER
LINES DOWN IN RHOME.
0830 PM FORT WORTH TX 73 MPH TSTM GUST
10/02/98 TARRANT WIND RPTD IN SUMMERFIELDS
DIVISION BY SPOTTER.
0840 PM SAGINAW TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 TARRANT LIGHT POLES BLOWN DOWN IN
SAGINAW RPTD BY P.D.
0851 PM RANGER TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 EASTLAND GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL RPTD BY
S.O.
0852 PM PALO PINTO TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 PALO PINTO DIME HAIL RPTD BY SPOTTER
IN THE CITY.
0916 PM TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
10/02/98 PARKER STORM SPOTTERS RPTD 60 MPH
WINDS IN WILLOW PARK.
0925 PM BENBROOK TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 TARRANT DIME HAIL RPTD BY
SPOTTERS.
0928 PM TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 PALO PINTO DIME HAIL RPTD IN SANTOS.
0940 PM NORTH RICHLAND HILLS TX FLOODING
10/02/98 TARRANT CAR FLOODED AT RUFE SNOW
AND HIGHTOWN STREETS.
DRIVER NOT FOUND.
0940 PM TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 PARKER SPOTTER RPTD DIME HAIL.
0955 PM TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
10/02/98 PARKER TRACTOR TRAILER BLOWN OVER
IN WILLOW PARK.
1021 PM STRAWN TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 PALO PINTO DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
RPTD BETWEEN STRAWN AND
MINGUS BY SO.
1030 PM SPRINGTOWN TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 PARKER POWER LINES DOWN NORTH OF
SPRINGTOWN.Local storm report, Oct 2, 10:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 45 min |
| Oct 2, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack | 26 min |
| Oct 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 49 min |
| Oct 2, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt | 46 min |
| Oct 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 42 min |
| Oct 2, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 64 min |
| Oct 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 57 min |
| Oct 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin | 59 min |
| Oct 2, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 56 min |
| Oct 2, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 65 min |
| Oct 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 61 min |
| Oct 2, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 55 min |
| Oct 2, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath | 64 min |
| Oct 2, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 58 min |
| Oct 2, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt, Rains | 67 min |
| Oct 2, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 60 min |
| Oct 2, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 60 min |
| Oct 3, 4:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 4:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 7:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 45 min |
| Oct 3, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 45 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.