Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1999, 4:32 PM CDT for Hill County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 4, 1999, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1999, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hill County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Milam | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 1:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 2:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 66 min |
| Apr 4, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 51 min |
| Apr 4, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 67 min |
| Apr 4, 4:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.