Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 1998, 10:38 PM CST for Limestone County, Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 4 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
- Feb 25, 1998, 10:38 PM CST (04:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 1998, 11:45 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Limestone County, TX, Robertson County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 11:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Kosse, TX | Strong winds blew over a tractor trailer. |
| Feb 25, 11:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Kosse, TX | Strong winds blew over a mobile home. |
| Feb 25, 11:18 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Bremond, TX | Strong winds blew down large trees, power lines, and signs. A couple roofs were damaged. |
| Feb 25, 11:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Thornton, TX | Strong wind damaged the roofs of four homes, and destroyed the roof of a barn and a shed. Trees, power lines, and antennas were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1012 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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
Special weather statement, Feb 25, 8:26 PM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Feb 25, 9:56 PM CST, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
956 PM CST WED FEB 25 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM ROANOKE TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 DENTON DIME HAIL AT ALLIANCE
AIRPORT.
0718 PM GLEN ROSE TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 SOMERVELL JUST WEST OF GLEN ROSE
0727 PM GLEN ROSE TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 SOMERVELL WEST END OF GLEN ROSE.
0739 PM ANNA TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 COLLIN
0742 PM VAN ALSTYNE TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
02/25/98 GRAYSON 60 MPH WINDS DOWNED TREES
DAMAGED WINDOWS
0742 PM VAN ALSTYNE TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 GRAYSON 1.25 INCH HAIL COVERING
THE GROUND.
0753 PM FORT WORTH TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 TARRANT SPOTTERS REPORT
0810 PM LEWISVILLE TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 DENTON REPORT IN FLOWER MOUND
0815 PM SAVOY TX .88 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 FANNIN NICKLE HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND IN SAVOY
0930 PM COPPERAS COVE TX WIND DAMAGE
02/25/98 CORYELL MOBLE HOMES TURNED OVER
0940 PM KILLEEN TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 BELL DIME SIZE HAIL IN KILLEEN.Local storm report, Feb 25, 9:56 PM CST, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
956 PM CST WED FEB 25 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM ROANOKE TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 DENTON DIME HAIL AT ALLIANCE
AIRPORT.
0718 PM GLEN ROSE TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 SOMERVELL JUST WEST OF GLEN ROSE
0727 PM GLEN ROSE TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 SOMERVELL WEST END OF GLEN ROSE.
0739 PM ANNA TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 COLLIN
0742 PM VAN ALSTYNE TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
02/25/98 GRAYSON 60 MPH WINDS DOWNED TREES
DAMAGED WINDOWS
0742 PM VAN ALSTYNE TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 GRAYSON 1.25 INCH HAIL COVERING
THE GROUND.
0753 PM FORT WORTH TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 TARRANT SPOTTERS REPORT
0810 PM LEWISVILLE TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 DENTON REPORT IN FLOWER MOUND
0815 PM SAVOY TX .88 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 FANNIN NICKLE HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND IN SAVOY
0930 PM COPPERAS COVE TX WIND DAMAGE
02/25/98 CORYELL MOBLE HOMES TURNED OVER
0940 PM KILLEEN TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/98 BELL DIME SIZE HAIL IN KILLEEN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 63 min |
| Feb 25, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 63 min |
| Feb 25, 6:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 58 min |
| Feb 25, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 60 min |
| Feb 25, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 69 min |
| Feb 25, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 66 min |
| Feb 25, 7:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 63 min |
| Feb 25, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 60 min |
| Feb 25, 8:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 67 min |
| Feb 25, 8:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Somervell | 3 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 69 min |
| Feb 25, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 35 min |
| Feb 25, 9:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 2 hr |
| Feb 25, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 67 min |
| Feb 25, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 58 min |
| Feb 25, 11:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon | 62 min |
| Feb 25, 11:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 12:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Anderson | 43 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.