Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
415 PM CDT MON APR 24 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER BELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 4:05 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM CANTON...TO GROESBECK...TO KILLEEN
AND SOUTHEAST TOWARD GIDDINGS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
THE BELL/FALLS COUNTY LINE EAST OF TEMPLE. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE
WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF BELTON IN BELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST.

THE PRECIPITATION AREA EXTENDED EAST BEYOND TYLER AND SOUTH TO
HEMPSTEAD. OTHER SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING FROM GLEN ROSE SOUTH ACROSS
BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES TO AUSTIN.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND PERIODS
OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL SHOULD BE EXPECTED WITH THE LARGER STORMS AS
THEY MOVE THROUGH BELL...FALLS...ROBERTSON...LEON...AND POSSIBLY
<LIMESTONE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN BELL COUNTY
0MAY EXPERIENCE SOME STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS
SINCE THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN TRACKING NORTHEAST ACROSS THAT
COUNTY AT 25 MPH DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-250000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX
505 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990

AT 500 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...WITH
VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND THE
EXTREME SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION
IS MAINLY EAST OF A FAIRFIELD...CANTON...PARIS LINE.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE IN A LINE FROM NEAR
CENTERVILLE...PALESTINE...TYLER TO QUITMAN. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE
PRECIPITATION WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE AT THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...AND A
PASSING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...WAS PRODUCING THE^ SIGNIFICANT AREA
OF PRECIPITATION IN NORTHEAST TEXAS.

LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY WITH THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

TXZ031-037-242230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
535 PM CDT MON APR 24 1990

...MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL
MOVING THROUGH BELL COUNTY OF CENTRAL TEXAS...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..
CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL TEXAS. AT
5:25 PM CDT...WACO RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORMS CONTINUING
IN BELL COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE TRACKING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...
AND ALONG A GENERAL PATH OTHER STORMS HAVE TAKEN DURING THE AFTERNOON.
AN UNOFFICIAL REPORT OF OVER THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS RECEIVED
FROM THE ACADEMY AREA. ONE STORM HAS JUST MOVED OVER THE ACADEMY/
HEIDENHEIMER AREA OF BELL COUNTY OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF TEMPLE.
FURTHER SOUTH ANOTHER STORM IS LOCATED SOUTH OF SALADO AND JUST
NORTHWEST OF BARTLETT. MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS JUST OCCURRED 3 MILES
NORTH OF BARTLETT BETWEEN 5:25 AND AND 5:30. THIS STORM IS MOVING
NORTHEAST.
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SOME STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH FLOODING OF DITCHES...
SMALL STREAMS...UNDERPASSES...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS DURING THE
NEXT HOUR OR SO AS RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE FROM THESE HEAVY RAINS.
LOCAL OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED NO PROBLEMS THUS FAR IN THE COUNTY.
NEVERTHELESS...MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION ESPECIALLY OVER THE
EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY.

SHOULD THE STORM OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF BELL COUNTY MOVE OVER
THE SAME PATH AS THE PREVIOUS STORMS...A WARNING WILL LIKELY BE
NEEDED. PERSONS IN THAT COUNTY SHOULD BE EXPECIALLY ALERT FOR
FLOODING DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-250000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX
545 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990

AT 540 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...OVER
NORTHEAST TEXAS MAINLY EAST OF A FAIRFIELD...SULPHUR SPRINGS...PARIS LINE.
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST ANDERSON AND SOUTHWEST CHEROKEE
COUNTIES...OVER SOUTHEAST AND NORTHEAST TYLER COUNTY...AND OVER NORTHEAST
WOOD...WESTERN CAMP AND SOUTH FRANKLIN COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST
AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE AT THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...AND A
PASSING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...WAS PRODUCING THE SIGNIFICANT AREA
OF PRECIPITATION IN NORTHEAST TEXAS.

LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY WITH THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-250100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX
650 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990

AT 645 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...OVER
NORTHEAST TEXAS MAINLY EAST OF A PALESTINE...GRAND SALINE...CLARKSVILLE
LINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE AT THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...AND A
PASSING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...WAS PRODUCING THE SIGNIFICANT AREA
OF PRECIPITATION IN NORTHEAST TEXAS.

LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
800 PM CDT TUE APR 24 1990

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR BELL
COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...AND FOR BRAZOS COUNTY OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 1015 PM CDT...

AT 755 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
WERE SCATTERED FROM BELL COUNTY...SOUTHEAST...THROUGH BRAZOS COUNTY.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH 15 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE MENTIONED AREAS SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO FAST RISING
WATERS OVER ROADWAYS..LOW LYING..FLOOD PRONE AREAS...AND BE PREPARED
TO MOVE TO SAFETY IMMEDIATELY.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTSX
OR ADVISORIES.