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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 29, 1989Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1989, 7:55 PM CDT for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 1989, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1989, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Navarro County, TX

The radar

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

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, 5:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 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, 2 hours 5 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 7:35 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone62 min
Apr 29, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLimestone49 min
Apr 29, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.