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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 7, 1998Jack County, Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 6:58 AM CST for Jack County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
Mar 7, 1998, 6:58 AM CST (12:58 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1998, 8:00 AM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jack County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 7, 7:10 AM CSTHail 0.75Alvord, TX

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 7, 5:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 1998-03-07Temperature 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 1998-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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
Mar 6, 8:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson69 min
Mar 7, 6:43 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche62 min
Mar 7, 7:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland70 min
Mar 7, 7:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson27 min
Mar 7, 7:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath, Palo Pinto70 min
Mar 7, 11:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson4 hr
Mar 7, 12:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Lamar60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.