Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 7, 1990, 11:22 PM CST for Hopkins County, Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1990, 11:22 PM CST (05:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1990, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hopkins County, TX, Red River 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 469 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 562 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 080524 FFWFTW TXC223-387-080830- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1122 PM CST WED MAR 7 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...HOPKINS COUNTY...RED RIVER COUNTY AT 1120 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING OVER RED RIVER AND HOPKINS COUNTIES. THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN RED RIVER COUNTY HAS REPORTED SEVERAL FARM TO MARKET ROADS UNDER WATER. FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP IN HOPKINS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO PERSIST OVER THESE COUNTIES FOR AN ADDITIONAL TWO HOURS OR MORE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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, Mar 7, 9:09 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
TXZ031-080400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 907 PM CST WED MAR 7 1990 AT 905 PM CST AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN MCLENNAN COUNTY FROMr BELLMEAD TO NORTH OF MART. NO MOVEMENT DETERMINED AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS. 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 1:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Franklin, Titus | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Morris | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Red River | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Rains | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains, Wood | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Upshur | 4 hr |
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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.