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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 1998, 10:32 AM CDT for Navarro 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 1998, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1998, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Navarro County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:23 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 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFTW 171535 RRA
TORFTW
TXC349-171600-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1032 AM CDT SAT OCT 17 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
NAVARRO COUNTY IN TEXAS
INCLUDING CORSICANA
* UNTIL 1100 AM CDT
* AT 1028 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
AND PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR SILVER CITY...OR 7 MILES
WEST OF CORSICANA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR.
EMHOUSE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
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 LCOVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3206 9670 3194 9655 3219 9618 3229 9630
3235 9643The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 10:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 44 min |
| Oct 17, 10:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 31 min |
| Oct 17, 11:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 56 min |
| Oct 17, 11:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 48 min |
| Oct 17, 11:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 11:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 52 min |
| Oct 17, 11:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 12:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 34 min |
| Oct 17, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 4 hr |
| Oct 17, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone, Navarro | 4 hr |
| Oct 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 1:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 34 min |
| Oct 17, 5:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 3 hr |
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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.