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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1989, 10:56 PM CDT for Rains County, Van Zandt County, Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 2 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 3, 1989, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1989, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rains County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood 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 3, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Van Zandt, TX | |
| Apr 3, 11:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wood, 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 2423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFTW 040354
TORFTW
TXC379-467-499-040500-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1056 PM CDT MON APR 3 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
...RAINS...NORTHERN VAN ZANDT...WOOD
AT 1055 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES EAST WILLS
POINT OR EIGHT MILES NORTHWEST GRAND SALINE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS 4A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.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, Apr 3, 5:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 505 PM CDT MON APR 3 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...IN SOUTHERN MCLENNAN AND WESTERN FALLS COUNTIES... AT 456 PM CDT A 10 TO 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS BETWEEN MOODY AND MARLIN. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MOODY. RESIDENTS IN SOUTHERN MCLENNAN AND THE NORTHERN ONE HALF OF FALLS COUNTY SHOULD EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. HOWEVER...THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME IN THE FORM OF BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLY REACHING AS HIGH AS 50 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO...A LONE THUNDERSHOWER HAD DEVELOPED A7LONG THE SOUTHWEST BELL/ WILLIAMSON COUNTY LINE. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS. 07
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 6:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 620 PM CDT MON APR 3 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS DISSIPATED OVER MCLENNAN AND FALLS COUNTY... AT 608 PM CDT THE THUNDERSTORMS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED OVER FALLS AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES HAD DISSIPATED. ELSEWHERE...A NEWLY DEVELOPED AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER WILLIAMSON COUNTY AND EXTENDED NORTHEAST TO ALONG THE EXTREME SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY MOVE INTO THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF BELL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR....THEN INTO MILAM COUNTY. RESIDENTS IN EXTREME SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY SHOLD EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS. < 07
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 7:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 728 PM CDT MON APR 3 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN NOW IN SOUTH TEXAS... AT 723 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE NO LONGER OBSERVED OVER CENTRAL TEXAS. ELSEWHERE...A 10 TO 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS FROM NORTHEAST OF LAKE TRAVIS...TO NEAR GRANGER...TO CENTRAL MILAM COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE WACO OFFICE UNLESS THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA. 07
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 7:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 850 PM CDT MON APR 04 1989 AT 850 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF CLARKSVILLE TO NEAR COOPER. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN COOPER AND SULPHUR SPRINGS AND NORTH OF MOUNT PLEASANT IN TITUS COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR BOGATA IN SOUTHERN RED RIVER COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU LIVE IN THE DELTA...RED RIVER COUNTY OR TITUS COUNTIES...YOU CAN EXPECT DEADLY LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. STAY INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 68 min |
| Apr 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin, Titus | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Morris, Red River | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Franklin, Upshur, Wood | 69 min |
| Apr 3, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 69 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1989Every tornado warning in 1989Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.