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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 1, 1999Limestone County, Robertson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 1, 1999, 6:13 PM CST for Limestone County, Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 1, 1999, 6:13 PM CST (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Jan 1, 1999, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Limestone County, TX, Robertson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 1, 4:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 1, 5:36 PM CST, 37 minutes before

TXZ091>094-101>105-116>121-130>134-144>147-158>162-174-175-012111-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
536 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999

...THIS IS A SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH
TEXAS...

.A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FALLS COUNTY
UNTIL 600 PM.

.TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1 IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH
TEXAS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM JEFFERSON TO ROCKWALL TO COLLEGE
STATION UNTIL 1000 PM.

.A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE
EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS...ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM
CENTERVILLE TO ATHENS TO CANTON TO MT. VERNON TO TEXARKANA.

78

Special weather statement, Jan 1, 5:36 PM CST, 37 minutes before

TXZ091>094-101>105-116>121-130>134-144>147-158>162-174-175-012111-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
536 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999

...THIS IS A SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH
TEXAS...

.A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FALLS COUNTY
UNTIL 600 PM.

.TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1 IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH
TEXAS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM JEFFERSON TO ROCKWALL TO COLLEGE
STATION UNTIL 1000 PM.

.A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE
EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS...ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM
CENTERVILLE TO ATHENS TO CANTON TO MT. VERNON TO TEXARKANA.

78

Local storm report, Jan 1, 5:44 PM CST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
544 PM CST FRI JAN 01 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0510 PM    ROGERS                    TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/01/99   BELL                           DIME SIZE HAIL AND 50 MPH
                                          WINDS REPORTED BY S.0.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 6:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Milam	3 hr
Jan 1, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon	50 min
Jan 1, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	51 min
Jan 1, 7:17 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	4 hr
Jan 1, 7:17 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson	4 hr
Jan 1, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	41 min
Jan 1, 8:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	58 min
Jan 1, 8:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.