Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1989, 6:57 PM CDT for Ellis County, Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1989, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1989, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ellis County, TX, Navarro County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:01 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ellis, TX | |
| Apr 29, 7:18 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ellis, TX | |
| Apr 29, 7:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Navarro, TX | |
| Apr 29, 7:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ellis, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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.
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
Local storm report, Apr 29, 1:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
114 PM CDT SAT APR 29 1989
TUNE IF OCCURRENCE EVENT
335-346 PM CDT PUBLIC REPORT OF DIME SIZE HAIL AT TDC
FERGUSON UNIT, AND ALSO ALONG HWY 75
FROM MADISONVILLE TO WALKER CO. LINE.
BOTH MADISON COUNTY TEXAS.Local storm report, Apr 29, 1:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
114 PM CDT SAT APR 29 1989
TUNE IF OCCURRENCE EVENT
335-346 PM CDT (04-28-89) PUBLIC REPORT OF DIME SIZE HAIL AT TDC
FERGUSON UNIT, AND ALSO ALONG HWY 75
FROM MADISONVILLE TO WALKER CO. LINE.
BOTH MADISON COUNTY TEXAS.Local storm report, Apr 29, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
515 PM CDT SAT APR 29 1989
...ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FROM FTW WSFO CAR...EVENING OF
APRIL 28 1989...
TIME OF
OCCURRENCE EVENT
1050 PM CDT GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL - WOLF CITY...NORTHERN HUNT CO.
1110 PM CDT DIME SIZE HAIL AND "VERY HIGH WINDS" - WOODLAND...
NORTHWEST RED RIVER CO.Special weather statement, Apr 29, 5:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 550 PM CDT SAT APR 29 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BOSQUE..CORYELL..FALLS..HILL..LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 545 PM CDT A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..EXTENDED 70 MILES SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GOLDTHWAITE TO NEAR AUSTIN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN CENTRAL TEXAS..BUT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE EV#ENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 69 min |
| Apr 28, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 66 min |
| Apr 28, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 58 min |
| Apr 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque | 31 min |
| Apr 29, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.