Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1998, 3:14 PM CST for Milam County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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
- Jan 21, 1998, 3:14 PM CST (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1998, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Milam County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 3:15 PM CST | Hail 1 | Buckholts, TX | Quarter size hail covered the ground. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 12:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Jan 21, 1:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 66 min |
| Jan 21, 2:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 42 min |
| Jan 21, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls | 63 min |
| Jan 21, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 60 min |
| Jan 21, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Robertson | 52 min |
| Jan 21, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 59 min |
| Jan 21, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon | 45 min |
| Jan 21, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 59 min |
| Jan 21, 4:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 68 min |
| Jan 21, 5:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 4 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.