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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 63
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 25, 1998, 9:30 PM CST for 12 counties in Arkansas; Choctaw County, McCurtain County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma; 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 1998, 9:30 PM CST (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Clark County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Choctaw County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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.
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 45 min |
| Feb 25, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 69 min |
| Feb 25, 9:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 2 hr |
| Feb 25, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone, Robertson | 67 min |
| Feb 25, 11:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon | 62 min |
| Feb 25, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 61 min |
| Feb 25, 11:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 12:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Anderson | 43 min |
| Feb 26, 12:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Smith | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 12:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Morris, Titus | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 12:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur, Wood | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 12:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 96 min |
| Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Marion | 96 min |
| Feb 26, 1:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 64 min |
| Feb 26, 1:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead | 61 min |
| Feb 26, 1:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 2:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1012 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 25, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson, Caldwell and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Cherokee, Fort Bend and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 6:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell, Edwards and 23 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1998
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.