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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1998, 10:10 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1998, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 10:13 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ft Worth, TX | Large hail was reported in west Ft Worth. |
| May 8, 10:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | White Settlement, TX | Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines and 21 powerline poles near the intersection of IH 30 and west Loop IH 820. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 576 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
482
WFUS1 KFTW 090312 RRA
TORFTW
TXC439-090345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1010 PM CDT FRI MAY 8 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
TARRANT COUNTY IN TEXAS
INCLUDING WHITE SETTLEMENT...SANSOM PARK...RIVER OAKS...FORT
WORTH...FOREST HILL AND EDGECLIFF VILLAGE
* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
* AT 1010 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITE SETTLEMENT...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WESTWORTH AND WESTOVER
HILLS
SPOTTERS REPORTED NUMEROUS TRANSFOMER AND POWER LINE FLASHES IN
WESTERN TARRANT COUNTY. THESE FLASHES INDICATE DAMAGING WINDS.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3276 9719 3263 9730 3273 9752 3281 9749The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 50 min |
| May 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 65 min |
| May 8, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 58 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 25 min |
| May 8, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 63 min |
| May 8, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 29 min |
| May 8, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Denton | 38 min |
| May 8, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 62 min |
| May 8, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 40 min |
| May 8, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton | 59 min |
| May 8, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 67 min |
| May 8, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 29 min |
| May 8, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 45 min |
| May 8, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 47 min |
| May 8, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 44 min |
| May 8, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 54 min |
| May 8, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 37 min |
| May 8, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 49 min |
| May 8, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 117 min |
| May 8, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 48 min |
| May 8, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 53 min |
| May 8, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Rockwall | 55 min |
| May 8, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 46 min |
| May 8, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 53 min |
| May 8, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 46 min |
| May 9, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 49 min |
| May 9, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 55 min |
| May 9, 1:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 14 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.