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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 1990, 7:31 AM CST for Hopkins County, Rains County, Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 1990, 7:31 AM CST (13:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1990, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hopkins County, TX, Rains 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 081333 FFWFTW TXC063-159-223-343-379-449-459-499-081730- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 731 AM CST THU MAR 8 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...CAMP COUNTY...FRANKLIN COUNTY...HOPKINS COUNTY...MORRIS COUNTY ...RAINS COUNTY...TITUS COUNTY...UPSHUR COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL OVER A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. NUMEROUS ROADS ARE UNDER WATER AND SOME ROADS ARE CLOSED. RECENT TRENDS INDICATE THAT THE RAINS MAY BE DEVELOPING TOWARD THE WEST. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON ROUGHLY EAST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM TO ATHENS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 8, 1:46 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ031-037-080900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 140 AM CST THU MAR 8 1990 AT 1:35 AM CST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO INCREASE SLOWLY IN NUMBER OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND BEGINNING TO SPREAD SOUTHWARD INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE ACTIVITY EXTENDED FROM KILLEEN AND HEARNE...NORTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS BEYOND SULPHUR SPRINGS. THE PRECIPITATION AREA WAS MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED IN PORTIONS OF BELL...FALLS... AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THESE SHOWERS WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN ROBERTSON AND LEON COUNTIES SHORTLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 8, 3:10 AM CST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ031-037-081015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 300 AM CST THU MAR 8 1990 AT 3:00 AM CST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM NORTHWEST OF GEORGETOWN...ACROSS BELL...FALLS...AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES AND BEYOND TO TYLER AND SULPHUR SPRINGS. THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY EAST. NO FLOODING PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN MCLENNAN AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES AND NONE IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED UNLESS RAINFALL RATES INCREASE...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHERN BELL COUNTY. THE SHOWERS IN ROBERTSON AND LEON COUNTIES HAVE ENDED FOR THE MOMENT BUT SHOULD BEGIN AGAIN SHORTLY OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THESE COUNTIES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 8, 4:03 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ031-037-081130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 400 AM CST THU MAR 8 1990 AT 3:55 AM CST...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS HAD ENDED OVER CENTRAL TEXAS. MOSTLY LIGHT SHOWERS PERSISTED FROM EAST OF MOODY IN SOUTHERN MCLENNAN COUNTY TO NORTH OF MEXIA IN LIMESTONE COUNTY. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. FURTHER NORTHEAST...SCATTERES SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED FROM CORSICANA AND FAIRFIELD TOm WELL BEYOND TYLER. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT UNTIL THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOP OVER CENTRAL TEXAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 11:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Red River | 3 hr |
| 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 | Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Upshur | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.