Tornado Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1255 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988

...A SLOW MOVING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS ACROSS THE METROPLEX...

AT 1250 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A 15 MILE WIDE
LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE RED RIVER NEAR
SHERMAN...ACROSS THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX TO NEAR WACO AND
TEMPLE.  THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY
WINDS AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY OFF TO THE EAST OR REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY.

RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEAST TARRANT...SOUTHWEST DALLAS AND EASTERN JOHNSON
COUNTIES CAN EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUES EAST.

ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EAST TEXAS FROM
NEAR PARIS TO PALESTINE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
120 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 120 PM CST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE DALLAS
AREA SOUTH THROUGH WACO TO NEAR GEORGETOWN. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR...
AND SMALL HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS
...IN LEON COUNTY JUST EAST OF MARQUEZ...AND ALONG THE ROBERTSON/MILAM
COUNTY LINE ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF CALVERT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY
WINDS...AS WELL AS HAIL...MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.

CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
150 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS...

AT 145 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
A 15 MILE WIDE LINE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR
SHERMAN TO DALLAS TO WACO AND TEMPLE.  THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER DALLAS COUNTY PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE
HAIL AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE.  OTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY IN EAST TEXAS IN AN AREA
FROM NEAR PARIS TO ATHENS TO BUFFALO.  MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LARGE
HAIL.

PERSONS IN DALLAS...HENDERSON...RED RIVER...AND SMITH COUNTIES
SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN
OR MOVING ACROSS YOUR COUNTIES.  YOU SHOULD BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION
IF THESE THUNDERSTORMS BECOME SEVERE AND THREATEN YOUR AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS.

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
340 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988

TIME CST         EVENT

140 PM      UNCONFIRED REPORT OF GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS
            TO 70 MPH IN BELLMEAD..MCLENNAN COUNTY.

205 PM      COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTED DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
            IN MALONE..HILL COUNTY

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
355 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LEON AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES
   OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN TEXAS UNTIL 8PM CST THIS EVENING...
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE EASTERN PARTS OF CENTRAL AND
   SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 345 PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM
NORTHEAST OF CORSICANA SOUTHWARD THROUGH PARTS OF EASTERN LIMESTONE...
WESTERN LEON...WESTERN ROBERTSON AND MUCH OF MADISON COUNTIES.  MOVEMENT
OF ALL THE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  PERSONS IN OR NEAR THESE
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF
SEVERE WEATHER.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED THROUGH THE EASTERN PARTS
OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.06

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
455 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM
CST...

...MCLENNAN...FALLS...HILL...AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES ARE NOT...REPEAT
NOT...IN THE WATCH AREA...

AT 450 PM CST SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EAST AND
SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS. IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...THE MOST INTENSE STORMS
WERE 5 MILES SOUTH OF JEWETT IN LEON COUNTY...IN EXTREME EASTERN
MADISON COUNTY...AND IN BURLESON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND TORNADOES ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FO@R LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.