Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 83
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 7, 1998, 5:45 AM CST for 13 counties in Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1998, 5:45 AM CST (11:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1998, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Wise | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 7:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 70 min |
| Mar 7, 7:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 27 min |
| Mar 7, 7:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 70 min |
| Mar 7, 10:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 31 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Glasscock and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches, Panola and 5 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.