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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 28, 1989Coryell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 28, 1989, 7:59 AM CST for Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1989, 7:59 AM CST (13:59 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1989, 12:00 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Coryell County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -166 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 flash flood 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, Mar 28, 2:41 AM CST, 5 hours 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 3:18 AM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
313 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM JONESBORO...TO 5 MILES EAST
   OF HICO...TO GLEN ROSE...

AT 255 AM CST A 10 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
WAS FROM JONESBORO...INTO WESTERN BOSQUE COUNTY TO JUST NORTH OF GLEN
ROSE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO WESTERN CORYELL
COUNTY...NEAR EVANT.

RESIDENTS IN CORYELL AND BOSQUE COUNTIES SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY TO VERY
HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST
ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR...OTHER STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TO THE WEST
AND SOUTHWEST...AND CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREAS OF PREVIOUS
HEAVY RAINS. MINOR STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WESTERN AREAS
OF BOSQUE COUNTY ESPECIALLY.

MOTORISTS SHOULD APPROACH LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND KNOWN FLOOD PRONE
AREAS WITH EXTREME CAUTION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS MOVING WATER.
ALSO...VISIBILITIES WILL BE GREATLY REDUCED IN THE HEAVIER SHOWERS.

ALSO...BOATERS OR FISHERMAN THAT HAVE PLANNED TRIPS THIS MORNING ON
CENTRAL TEXAS AREA LAKES SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION DUE TO GUSTY
WINDS AND LIGHTNING.

ELSEWHERE...A WIDESPREAD AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED
NORTHWEST OF A LINE...FROM JOHNSON CITY...TO GATESVILLE...TO GRANDVIEW
...TO DALLAS TO EAST OF BONHAM.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RAEDIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 4:13 AM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 4:44 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
435 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF
   CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 1000 AM CST THIS TUESDAY
   MORNING...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH
   TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS...TO INCLUDE THE COMMUNITIES OF
   WACO...DALLAS/FT WORTH AND EASTWARD UNTIL 600 PM CST THIS EVENING...

AT 415 AM CST A 15 TO 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY
TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS INDICATED BY WACO RADAR FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF
COPPERAS COVE...TO NEAR CLIFTON TO CLEBURNE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO WESTERN HILL COUNTY.

RESIDENTS IN CORYELL...BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY
RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING. MOTORISTS IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES CAN EXPECT GREATLY
REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN THE HEAVIER STORMS.
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EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION IN KNOWN FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND LOW WATER
CROSSINGS. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD ALSO EXPECT THE POSSIBILITY
OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY AND EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION...IF VENTURING
OUT.

ELSEWHERE...A WIDESPREAD AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED
NORTHWEST OF A LINE...FROM LLANO...TO KILLEEN...TO 15 MILES WEST OF
WACO...TO ITASCA...TO MESQUITE...AND EXTENDS WELL INTO WEST AND NORTH-
WEST TEXAS. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH
THE AREA AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER IS CURRENTLY BEING REPORTED...STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:18 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
605 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
   CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 1000 AM CST THIS MORNING...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 600 PM CST
   THIS EVENING...

AT 600 AM CST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS WEST
OF A LINE FROM DALLAS TO WACO TO AUSTIN. THUNDERSTORMS OVER MCLENNAN
AND EXTREME WESTERN BELL COUNTIES CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 30 MPH.

RESIDENTS IN MCLENNAN AND CORYELL COUNTIES CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN
...GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GRfOUND
LIGHTNING DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 7:33 AM CST, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
720 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
   CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 1000 AM CST THIS MORNING...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 600 PM CST
   THIS EVENING...

AT 715 AM CST RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERED A LARGE PART OF
CENTRAL TEXAS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
GUSTY WINDS. AT 700 AM CST A THUNDERSTORM BROUGHT VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
A GUST TO 46 MPH TO WACO REGIONAL AIRPORT. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS
NOW EXTEND FROM THE WACO AREA NORTH TO NEAR WHITNEY...IN HILL COUNTY.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT NEAR 35 MPH.

RESIDENTS IN MCLENNAN AND HILL COUNTIES CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...
GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN HAMILTON AND
EXTREME WESTERN CORYELL COUNTIES DURING THE NIGHT.

CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 6:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHardeman, Wilbarger28 min
Mar 27, 6:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell58 min
Mar 27, 7:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton60 min
Mar 28, 9:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman, Van Zandt28 min
Mar 28, 9:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt, Wood41 min
Mar 28, 12:48 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDBell42 min

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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.