Tornado Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Jan 5, 1998, 6:21 PM CST (00:21 UTC)

Expired

Jan 5, 1998, 7:15 PM CST

In force

54 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Mills County, TX

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 060023
TORFTW
TXC333-060115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
621 PM CST MON JAN 5 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...MILLS COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO FOUR
MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOLDTHWAITE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST
AT 15 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IN CENTER CITY AND STAR ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED GOLFBALL HAIL NEAR
GOLDTHWAITE.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

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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.