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Flash Flood Warning 169, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1990Dallas County, Kaufman County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 1990, 11:30 PM CDT for Dallas County, Kaufman County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 1990, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1990, 1:50 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dallas County, TX, Kaufman 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3079 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 326 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.9
Supercell composite: 24.2

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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 30, 6:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

TXZ031-032-037-310030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
635 PM CDT WED MAY 30 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IN PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 625 PM CDT WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS
AND STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN ROBERTSON
AND LEON COUNTIES.  THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE
IN ROBERTSON COUNTY 5 MILES EAST OF CALVERT AND 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
FRANKLIN...AND IN LEON COUNTY 7 MILES SOUTH OF MARQUEZ.  OTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN MADISON COUNTY.  LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WERE IN
BRAZOS COUNTY AND NEAR CORYELL/LAMPASSAS COUNTY LINE 17 MILES WEST OF
COPPERAS COVE.  MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED...THE STRONGER STORMS ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN
THAT MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODINEG OF LOW LYING AND NORMALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS.06

Special weather statement, May 30, 6:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

TXZ031-032-037-310030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
635 PM CDT WED MAY 30 1990

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100PM CDT FOR PERSONS
   FALLS...LEON AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES...
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IN PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 625 PM CDT WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS
AND STRONG TO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN ROBERTSON
AND LEON COUNTIES.  THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE
IN ROBERTSON COUNTY 5 MILES EAST OF CALVERT AND 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
FRANKLIN...AND IN LEON COUNTY 7 MILES SOUTH OF MARQUEZ.  OTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN MADISON COUNTY.  LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WERE IN
BRAZOS COUNTY AND NEAR CORYELL/LAMPASSAS COUNTY LINE 17 MILES WEST OF
COPPERAS COVE.  MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORGTED...THE STRONGER STORMS ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN
WHICH MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND NORMALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.06

Special weather statement, May 30, 10:37 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 11:19 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt	66 min
May 30, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	66 min
May 30, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hopkins	49 min
May 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Madison	60 min
May 30, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	60 min
May 30, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	41 min
May 30, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Franklin, Hopkins, Wood	62 min
May 30, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains	60 min
May 30, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	40 min
May 30, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	25 min
May 30, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Upshur, Wood	69 min
May 30, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	63 min
May 30, 11:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	3 hr
May 30, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	62 min
May 31, 12:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	4 hr
May 31, 2:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	4 hr
May 31, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood	62 min
May 31, 2:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	50 min
May 31, 11:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cherokee	4 hr
May 31, 12:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	4 hr
May 31, 12:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Smith	4 hr
May 31, 2:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cherokee	2 hr
May 31, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Smith	2 hr
May 31, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	2 hr
May 31, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Cherokee	4 hr
May 31, 5:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	5 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.