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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 1990, 4:06 AM CDT for Eastland County, Erath County, Palo Pinto County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1990, 4:06 AM CDT (09:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1990, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Palo Pinto 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 140910 FFWFTW TXC133-143-363-429-141215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 406 AM CDT SAT APR 14 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...EASTERN EASTLAND COUNTY...NORTHERN ERATH COUNTY ...PALO PINTO COUNTY...STEPHENS COUNTY AT 355 AQM CDT...RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EASTERN EASTLAND...NORTHERN ERATH...PALO PINTO AND STEPHENS COUNTIES. THESE COUNTIES HAVE BEEN RECEIVING HEAVY RAINS FOR THE PAST FEW HOURS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE REGION AT THE PRESENT TIME. DURING THE PAST HOUR...THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT SPEEDS TO 40 MPH...HAVE SLOWED DOWN DRAMATICALLY OVER THE AFFECTED AREA. IN ADDITION...MULTIPLE STORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS THE SAME AREA MAKING FLOODING EVEN MORE LIKELY. LATEST REPORTS FROM THE AFFECTED AREA INDICATE THAT PROBLEMS ARE ALREADY OCCURRING IN URBAN AREAS. REPORTS FROM THE CITY OF BRECKENRIDGE INDICATE THAT SOME STREETS ARE ALREADY FLOODED AND A FEW CREEKS WERE BEGINNING TO COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS. HOWEVER...RADAR INDICATES THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE...AND CONTINUE TO FALL IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF STEPHENS COUNTY...SOUTHWEST PALO PINTO...EASTERN EASTLAND AND NORTHERN ERATH COUNTIES. WHILE THIS AREA IS OUTSIDE MOST TOWNS...DRIVING COULD BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS...ESPECIALLY ON LESS TRAVELED ROADS AT NIGHT. MOTORISTS ARE URGED NOT TO DRIVE INTO AN AREA WHERE THE ROAD IS COVERED BY WATER. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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.
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, Apr 13, 11:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ021-022-023-025-026-140530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1110 PM CDT FRI APR 13 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 1105 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF ABILENE EASTWARD TO STEPHENS COUNTY AND FARTHER EAST TO THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX...NORTH TO DENTON...AND FARTHER NORTHWARD TO SHERMAvN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BRECKENRIDGE IN STEPHENS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 11:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ021-022-023-025-026-140530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1150 PM CDT FRI APR 13 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 1145 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF ABILENE EASTWARD TO PALO PINTO COUNTY AND FARTHER EAST TO THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX... NORTH TO DENTON...AND FARTHER NORTHWARD TO SHERMAN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PALO PINTO...OVER NORTHEAST ERATH COUNTY... AND OVER NORTHWEST STEPHENS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 1:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ031-140745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 145 AM CDT SAT APR 14 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES UNTIL 600 AM CDT... AT 136 AM CDT A WIDESPREAD AREA OF RAIN...WITH ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WAS NORTH OF A LINE...FROM STEPHENVILLE...TO ITASCA... TO JUST NORTH OF TYLER. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINERAL WELLS AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FT WORTH. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER IS CURRENTLY OVER THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA... RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF CHANGING WEATHER SITIATIONS. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. THREE QUARTER TO ONE INCH HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED DURING THE PAST HOUR FROM THESE STORMS AND A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN REPORTED IN PALO PINTO COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS...OR WARNINGS< SHOULD THE NEED ARISE. THE AREA OF RAINFALL IS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR..0.WHILE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. 07
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 3:36 AM CDT, 30 minutes before
TXZ031-140945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 330 AM CDT SAT APR 14 1990 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HILL COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED A WARNING FOR THAT COUNTY HAS WEAKENED AND IS NOW OUT OF THE COUNTY IN EXTREME NORTHERN LIMESTONE COUNTY. PERSONS IN LIMESTONE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FOR THEIR COUNTY SHOULD THE STORM REINTENSIFY. AT 3:25 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH TEXAS FROM NORTHEAST OF EASTLAND TO SOUTHEAST OF FORT WORTH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MCCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES UNTIL 6 AM CDT. < <STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 57 min |
| Apr 14, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 53 min |
| Apr 14, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Scurry | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 1:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 1:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 1:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jones | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 56 min |
| Apr 14, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 57 min |
| Apr 14, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 49 min |
| Apr 14, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 53 min |
| Apr 14, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Palo Pinto | 57 min |
| Apr 14, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 3 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.