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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 389, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 3, 1998Stephens County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT for Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 3, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 1998, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stephens County, TX

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 3, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 9.2

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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

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Special weather statement, Oct 3, 1:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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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 2, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	62 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

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.