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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 4, 1998Erath County, Somervell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1998, 7:14 PM CDT for Erath County, Somervell County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
Jun 4, 1998, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Erath County, TX, Somervell County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 4, 7:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 74Glen Rose, TXThunderstorm winds blew a tree onto a building.
Jun 4, 7:30 PM CDTHail 1Tolar, 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
Jun 4, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 1998-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3547 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
3547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
6.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 050014 RRA
TORFTW
TXC143-425-050045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
714 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

   * TORNADO WARNING FOR
     SOMERVELL COUNTY IN TEXAS
     ERATH COUNTY IN TEXAS

    * UNTIL 745 PM CDT

   * AT 714 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
     DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF CHALK MOUNTAIN...OR ABOUT 11
     MILES EAST OF STEPHENVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR.

   * TORNADO WILL BE
     NEAR PALUXY AT 720 PM CDT
     NEAR GLEN ROSE AT 730 PM CDT      
     NEAR GLEN ROSE AT 740 PM CDT


LAT...LON 3250 9820 3204 9799 3222 9761 3255 9763

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson58 min
Jun 4, 7:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson3 hr
Jun 4, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke25 min
Jun 4, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas64 min
Jun 4, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas77 min
Jun 4, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Grayson54 min
Jun 4, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson96 min
Jun 4, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell47 min
Jun 4, 8:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Somervell3 hr
Jun 4, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant33 min
Jun 4, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell56 min
Jun 4, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Hill56 min
Jun 4, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, McLennan61 min
Jun 4, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Hunt42 min
Jun 4, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas67 min
Jun 4, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Lamar, Rains61 min
Jun 4, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman85 min
Jun 4, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro85 min
Jun 4, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell65 min
Jun 4, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill63 min
Jun 4, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt68 min
Jun 4, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, McLennan62 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Limestone60 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone60 min
Jun 4, 10:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan3 hr
Jun 4, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro63 min
Jun 4, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson55 min
Jun 4, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan35 min
Jun 4, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone62 min
Jun 5, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills60 min
Jun 5, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton67 min
Jun 5, 3:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell56 min
Jun 5, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Coryell, McLennan53 min
Jun 5, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker61 min
Jun 5, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone, McLennan64 min
Jun 5, 4:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, McLennan64 min
Jun 5, 5:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Leon, Limestone65 min
Jun 5, 9:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell66 min
Jun 5, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam31 min
Jun 5, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam31 min
Jun 5, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRobertson29 min
Jun 5, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.