Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 18, 1990, 3:23 PM CST for Leon County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1990, 3:23 PM CST (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1990, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leon 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KACT 182124
FFWACT
TXC289-010130-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
323 PM CST THU JAN 18 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WACO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
...LEON
SATELLITE ESTIMATES AND GROUND REPORTS WERE SHOWING THAT BETWEEN 3 TO
5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER MUCH OF LEON COUNTY DURING THE PAST
24 HOURS...AND ESPECIALLY SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING.
THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN CENTERVILLE REPORTED THAT FARM ROAD 1119 HAS
BEEN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING OF BOGGY CREEK CROSSING. ALSO THE SERVICE
ROADS TO HWY 75 AND I-45 ARE FLOODED WHERE BOGGY CREEK CROSSES.
CENTERVILLE HAS RECIEVED ALMOST SIX INCHES SINCE YESTERDAY AND OAKWOOD
THREE AND A HALF INCHES IN THE PAST 24 HOURS.
MORE RAIN IS FORECASTED FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
OVER ALREADY SOAKED GROUND WHERE RUNOFF IS ALREADY AFFECTING SOME
STREAMS AND CREEKS TO FLOOD.
INTERESTS ALONG BOGGY CREEK AND KEECHI CREEK SHOULD ESPECIALLY BE
PREPARED TO SEEK SAFETY TO HIGHER GROUND.
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.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.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, Jan 18, 10:26 AM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ031-037-181730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1025 AM CST THU JAN 18 1990 AT 1015 AM CST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN SCATTERED FROM NEAR MERIDIAN TO WAXAHACHIE AND FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF WACO TO NEAR ROSEBUD. OTHERWISE...SHOWERS WERE NUMEROUS FROM HAMILTON ON INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS AND FROM NORTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY TO ANDERSON COUNTY. AN ISOLATED SHOWER WAS ALSO JUST SOUTHEAST OF COLLEGE STATION. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 10:32 AM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ019>033-181700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1030 AM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE OVER THE WEST PART OF NORTH TEXAS... AT 1025 AM A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF COMANCHE. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER SOUTHERN PALO PINTO COUNTY NEAR PALO PINTO CREEK RESERVOIR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. THE VISIBILITY WILL ALSO BE REDUCED AND BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND SMALL STREAMS MAY OCCUR. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THAT DOTTED THE WEST PART OF NORTH TEXAS. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY WITH A MODERATE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASH FLOODING. REMEMBER A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALREADY IN EFFECT INTO TONIGHT FOR MOST OF THE EAST PART OF NOR!TH TEXAS.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 11:39 AM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ031-037-181830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1135 AM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL...FALLS...HILL... LEON...LIMESTONE...BRAZOS...MADISON...ROBERTSON...AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES... AT 1127 AM CST RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GROESBECK. OTHERWISE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE NUMEROUS OVER NORTHCENTRAL... CENTRAL AND SCATTERED OVER SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 12:43 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
TXZ031-037-181930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1242 PM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT... AT 1232 PM CST ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NOTED...NEAR OAKWOOD...GROESBECK AND WHITNEY. OTHERWISE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE NUMEROUS OVER NORTHCENTRAL... CENTRAL AND SCATTERED OVER SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 1:36 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
TXZ031-037-182030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 135 PM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT... AT 131 PM CST NUMEROUS SHOWERS WERE CONTINUING OVER MOST OF NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 2:38 PM CST, 45 minutes before
TXZ031-037-182130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 237 PM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT... AT 234 PM CST AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS NOATED JUST EAST OF CAMERON. THUNDERSHOWERS WERE ALSO NUMEROUS FROM KILLEEN TO WEST OF TYLER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 1:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| Jan 18, 5:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Cherokee | 3 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.