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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 4, 1998Falls County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 4, 1998, 9:02 PM CST for Falls County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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, 9:02 PM CST (03:02 UTC)
Expired
Jan 4, 1998, 9:30 PM CST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Falls County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 00:00Z on 1998-01-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1525 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 00:00Z on 1998-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

985 
WFUS1 KFTW 050304 RRA
TORFTW
TXC145-050330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
902 PM CST SUN JAN 4 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...FALLS COUNTY
 
AT 900 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDCIATED A DEVELOPING
TORNADO NEAR WESTPHALIA OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARLIN. MOVEMENT
WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 7:04 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDErath3 hr
Jan 4, 7:19 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDErath56 min
Jan 4, 7:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque64 min
Jan 4, 7:50 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell3 hr
Jan 4, 8:08 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Grayson5 hr
Jan 4, 8:08 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton5 hr
Jan 4, 8:18 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, McLennan5 hr
Jan 4, 8:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls38 min
Jan 4, 8:36 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas4 hr
Jan 4, 9:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls60 min
Jan 4, 9:35 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant3 hr
Jan 4, 9:57 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Jan 4, 9:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone61 min
Jan 4, 10:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls30 min
Jan 4, 10:58 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone3 hr
Jan 4, 11:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone30 min
Jan 4, 11:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone66 min
Jan 5, 12:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone35 min
Jan 5, 12:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson66 min
Jan 5, 12:48 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin3 hr
Jan 5, 12:48 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Limestone3 hr
Jan 5, 3:52 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Limestone3 hr
Jan 5, 5:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon69 min
Jan 5, 5:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills62 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.