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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 17, 1989, 10:25 AM CDT for Upshur County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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
- May 17, 1989, 10:25 AM CDT (15:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1989, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upshur 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 11:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Upshur, 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 tornado 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, May 17, 4:44 AM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 445 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOOD CDT TODAY FOR PERSONS IN BELL BOSQUE...CORYELL...HILL AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TIS MORNING FOR MOST OF EAST AND CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 435AM CDT WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS MODERATE SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDESTORMS THROUG MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE IN PARTS OF MCLENNAN...BOSQUE...CORYELL...BELL AND FALLS COUNTIES. OTHER SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PARTS OF LIMESTONE...ROBERTSON...BRAZOS AND HILL COUNTIES. ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...FLASH FLOODING...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THESE STORMS ARE URGED TO REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.06
Special weather statement, May 17, 5:48 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 545AM CDT WED MAY 17 1989 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BOSQUE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED THE THUNDERSTORM HAS BECOME LESS INTENSE AND IS NO LONGER SEVERE... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY FOR PART OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND NORTH TEXAS... AT 535AM CDT WACO WEATHR RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE OCCURRING IN HILL COUNTY 15 MILES NORTHWEST AND 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HILLSBORO AND IN MCLENNAN COUNTY 10 MILES EAST AND 18 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF WACO. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS...FLASH FLOODING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. THE ALREADY RAINSOAKED GROUNDS ARE CAUSING PROBLEMS WITH THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL NOW OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS. IN BOSQUE COUNTY BRIDGES ARE REPORTED TO BE UNDER WATER ON FM 927 BETWEEN MORGAN AND LAKESIDE. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE HEAVIER RAINFALL ARE URGED TO NOT TO ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER AREAS. ROADWAYS AND BRIDGES COULD BE DAMAGED OR WASHED AWAY...SO DO NOT ASSUME THE AREA WOULD BE SAFE TO CROSS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. STATIONS) FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Parker, Tarrant | 69 min |
| May 16, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hood | 17 min |
| May 16, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt, Rains | 67 min |
| May 16, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 67 min |
| May 16, 7:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 59 min |
| May 16, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson | 38 min |
| May 16, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 57 min |
| May 16, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 57 min |
| May 16, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wood | 57 min |
| May 16, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis | 44 min |
| May 16, 8:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 2 hr |
| May 16, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman | 65 min |
| May 16, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall | 2 hr |
| May 16, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains, Wood | 53 min |
| May 16, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Upshur | 53 min |
| May 16, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 56 min |
| May 16, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains, Wood | 3 hr |
| May 16, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| May 16, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Rains, Smith, Van Zandt, Wood | 57 min |
| May 16, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher | 59 min |
| May 16, 11:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Smith, Wood | 119 min |
| May 16, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 61 min |
| May 16, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 2 hr |
| May 16, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell, Jones | 65 min |
| May 16, 11:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Upshur | 3 hr |
| May 17, 4:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 50 min |
| May 17, 5:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Johnson, Tarrant | 5 hr |
| May 17, 6:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt, Rockwall | 4 hr |
| May 17, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 38 min |
| May 17, 6:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin | 3 hr |
| May 17, 7:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone, McLennan | 4 hr |
| May 17, 7:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 4 hr |
| May 17, 7:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 25 min |
| May 17, 8:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 45 min |
| May 17, 8:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone | 3 hr |
| May 17, 8:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Anderson, Cherokee | 33 min |
| May 17, 8:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Smith | 33 min |
| May 17, 9:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 30 min |
| May 17, 9:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cherokee, Smith | 29 min |
| May 17, 9:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson, Navarro, Smith | 113 min |
| May 17, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 57 min |
| May 17, 9:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Smith | 49 min |
| May 17, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 59 min |
| May 17, 10:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson | 64 min |
| May 17, 10:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 58 min |
| May 17, 11:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro | 3 hr |
| May 17, 11:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Smith | 3 hr |
| May 17, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone, McLennan | 3 hr |
| May 17, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell | 3 hr |
| May 17, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls | 3 hr |
| May 17, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Upshur, Wood | 3 hr |
| May 17, 2:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Smith | 3 hr |
| May 17, 2:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 3 hr |
| May 17, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 63 min |
| May 17, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 43 min |
| May 17, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cherokee, Smith | 60 min |
| May 17, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 56 min |
| May 17, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith | 42 min |
| May 17, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Smith | 3 hr |
| May 17, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson | 3 hr |
| May 17, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.