Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 4, 1998, 7:19 PM CST for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
- Jan 4, 1998, 7:19 PM CST (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 1998, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erath County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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 nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1525 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
468 WFUS1 KFTW 050120 RRA TORFTW TXC143-050215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 719 PM CST SUN JAN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...ERATH COUNTY AT 717 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF STEPHENVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jan 4, 6:30 PM CST, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
630 PM CST SUN JAN 04 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0422 PM MC KINNEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
01/04/98 COLLIN 3 MILES SOUTH OF MC KINNEY
0425 PM ALLEN TX 1 INCH HAIL
01/04/98 COLLIN
0430 PM BRANCH TX 1 INCH HAIL
01/04/98 COLLIN
0440 PM MC KINNEY TX FLOODING
01/04/98 COLLIN STREET FLOODING IN
MC KINNEY AND BLUE RIDGE.
HWY 380 SHUT DOWN IN
MCKINNEY.Local storm report, Jan 4, 6:30 PM CST, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
630 PM CST SUN JAN 04 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0422 PM MC KINNEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
01/04/98 COLLIN 3 MILES SOUTH OF MC KINNEY
0425 PM ALLEN TX 1 INCH HAIL
01/04/98 COLLIN
0430 PM BRANCH TX 1 INCH HAIL
01/04/98 COLLIN
0440 PM MC KINNEY TX FLOODING
01/04/98 COLLIN STREET FLOODING IN
MC KINNEY AND BLUE RIDGE.
HWY 380 SHUT DOWN IN
MCKINNEY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 7:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath | 3 hr |
| Jan 4, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 64 min |
| Jan 4, 7:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Jan 4, 8:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Fannin, Grayson | 5 hr |
| Jan 4, 8:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 5 hr |
| Jan 4, 8:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, McLennan | 5 hr |
| Jan 4, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 38 min |
| Jan 4, 8:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 4 hr |
| Jan 4, 9:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 28 min |
| Jan 4, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 60 min |
| Jan 4, 9:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Jan 4, 9:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 3 hr |
| Jan 4, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 61 min |
| Jan 4, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 30 min |
| Jan 4, 10:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 3 hr |
| Jan 4, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 30 min |
| Jan 4, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 66 min |
| Jan 5, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 35 min |
| Jan 5, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 66 min |
| Jan 5, 12:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin | 3 hr |
| Jan 5, 12:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 3 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 3 hr |
| Jan 5, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 69 min |
| Jan 5, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 62 min |
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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.