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Flash Flood Warning 116, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 2, 1990Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1990, 5:59 PM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 1990, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1990, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 1990-05-02Temperature 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 1990-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 434 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
434 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
478 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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, May 2, 12:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ031-037-021830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1235 PM CDT WED MAY 2 1990

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR MOST OF
   CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 1230 PM CDT LIGHT SHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED THROUGH NORTH AND
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MPH.

OTHERWISE...RAIN AND SHOWERS EXTENDED NORTH OF A DALLAS/FORT WORTH...
STEPHENVILLE LINE...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MPH.

PERSONS IN NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO
FLOODING OF ALREADY SWOLEN STREAMS AND RIVERS..AND ALSO FOR RAIN AND
THUNDERSTORM REDEVELOPMENT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO+ FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
08
Special weather statement, May 2, 1:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ031-037-021930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
135 PM CDT WED MAY 2 1990

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR MOST OF
   CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 130 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY SCATTERED
NORTH OF A LINE FROM DALLAS...SOUTHWEST...TO EASTLAND.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR.

NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION WAS INDICATED IN CENTRAL OR SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON...AS
AFTERNOON HEATING WARMS THE AIR.
STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
08
Special weather statement, May 2, 2:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ031-037-022030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
235 PM CDT WED MAY 2 1990

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR MOST OF
   CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 230 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY SCATTERED
NORTH OF A LINE FROM DALLAS TO MINERAL WELLS.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR.

NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION WAS INDICATED IN CENTRAL OR SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON...AS
AFTERNOON HEATING WARMS THE AIR.
STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
08
Special weather statement, May 2, 3:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ031-037-022130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
330 PM CDT WED MAY 2 1990

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR MOST OF
   CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 325 PM CDT MOSTLY LIGHT SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED THROUGH THE WESTERN
PORTION OF CENTRAL TEXAS...BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON..k.AS
AFTERNOON HEATING WARMS THE AIR.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
08
Special weather statement, May 2, 5:53 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
TXZ031-037-030045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
549 PM CDT WED MAY 2 1990

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT...

AT 540 PM CDT WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS LIGHT TO MODERATE
SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL IN AN AREA
FROM NORTH OF FORT WORTH TO SOUTHWEST OF SAN SABA.  OTHER LIGHT TO
MODERATE SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN PARTS OF HILLL...LIMESTONE...LEON
...ROBERTSON...MADISON AND BRAZOS COUNTIES.  MOVEMENT OF ALL THE
PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WITH THE ALREADY RAINSOAKED GROUNDS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING
AND NORMALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS.  PERSONS IN OR NEAR THESE AREAS SHOULD
REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF RAPIDLY RISING WATERS AND BE
PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A
WARNING IS ISSUED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL iRADIO OR T.V. STATIONS
FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS THAT WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.06

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 10:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Johnson, Somervell, Tarrant4 hr
May 1, 10:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche, Eastland, Erath4 hr
May 1, 11:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas4 hr
May 1, 11:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson4 hr
May 2, 12:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Hunt, Rockwall4 hr
May 2, 1:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Rains4 hr
May 2, 1:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Lamar4 hr
May 2, 4:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Johnson4 hr
May 2, 4:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis4 hr
May 2, 4:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt, Wood4 hr
May 2, 6:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto4 hr
May 2, 6:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Parker, Tarrant4 hr
May 2, 6:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman4 hr
May 2, 11:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWichita4 hr
May 2, 11:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDYoung4 hr
May 2, 12:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
May 2, 1:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker4 hr
May 2, 2:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens4 hr
May 2, 2:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke4 hr
May 2, 3:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTaylor3 hr
May 2, 3:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDShackelford3 hr
May 2, 3:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson4 hr
May 2, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDArcher, Jack, Young4 hr
May 2, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDClay, Montague4 hr
May 2, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWichita4 hr
May 2, 5:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker4 hr
May 2, 5:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens4 hr
May 2, 5:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDShackelford3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.