Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1990, 2:53 AM CST for Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1990, 2:53 AM CST (08:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1990, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hopkins 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 467 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 KFTW 190854
FFWFTW
TXC223-379-467-191300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
253 AM CST FRI JAN 19 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
...HOPKINS...RAINS...VAN ZANDT
RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS CAUSING FLOODING PROBLEMS. VAN
ZANDT COUNTY SHERRIFF REPORTED FLOODING OF HIGHWAYS 80 AND 64.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKL2Y. MOVE 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, Jan 18, 9:43 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ031-037-190430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 945 PM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT... AT 940 PM CST THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR WACO TO CORSICANA...MOVING NORTH 35 MPH. OTHERWISE...MOSTLY SHOWERS AND RAIN...WITH OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS... WERE SCATTERED THROUGH ALL OF CENTAL TEXAS...EXTENDING NORTH THROUGH THE DALLAS/FT WORTH AREA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH NEAR 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD WATCH FOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR ADVISORIES. 08
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 10:37 PM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ031-037-190530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1035 PM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT... AT 1030 PM CST MOSTLY SHOWERS AND RAIN...WITH AN OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORM...COVERED MOST OF CENTRAL TEXAS AND WAS SCATTERED TOWARD THE DALLAS/FT WORTH AREA...AND SOUTH TOWARD AUSTIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH 40 MILES AN HOUR. MANY STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE EXPERIENCING FLOODING THROUGH THE NIGHT...AS WELL AS THE STRONG POSSIBLITY OF SOME FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS AND WATER CROSSINGS. PERSONS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE VERY REAL THREAT OF FLOODING...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION SHOULD IT BE NECESSARY. 08
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 11:17 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ031-037-190630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1120 PM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT... AT 1115 PM CST MOSTLY SHOWERS AND RAIN...WITH AN OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORM...COVERED MOST OF CENTRAL TEXAS AND WAS SCATTERED TO THE NORTHEAST TOWARD DALLAS AND TYLER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH 40 MILES AN HOUR. MANY STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE EXPERIENCING FLOODING THROUGH THE NIGHT...AS WELL AS THE STRONG POSSIBLITY OF SOME FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS AND WATER CROSSINGS. PERSONS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE VERY REAL THREAT OF FLOODING...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION SHOULD IT BE NECESSARY. 08
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 12:46 AM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
TXZ031-037-190630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1245 PM CST THU JAN 18 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT... AT 1240 PM CST MOSTLY SHOWERS AND RAIN...WITH AN OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORM...COVERED THE NORTHWEST PART OF CENTRAL TEXAS NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM SOUTHWEST OF GATESVILLE TO CORSICSNA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH 40 MILES AN HOUR. MANY STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE EXPERIENCING FLOODING THROUGH THE NIGHT...AS WELL AS THE STRONG POSSIBLITY OF SOME FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS AND WATER CROSSINGS. PERSONS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE VERY REAL THREAT OF FLOODING...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATEi ACTION SHOULD IT BE NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 12:49 AM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ031-037-190630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1245 AM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT... AT 1240 AM CST MOSTLY SHOWERS AND RAIN...WITH AN OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORM...COVERED THE NORTHWEST PART OF CENTRAL TEXAS NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM SOUTHWEST OF GATESVILLE TO CORSICSNA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH 40 MILES AN HOUR. MANY STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE EXPERIENCING FLOODING THROUGH THE NIGHT...AS WELL AS THE STRONG POSSIBLITY OF SOME FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS AND WATER CROSSINGS. PERSONS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE VERY REAL THREAT OF FLOODING...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDkIATE ACTION SHOULD IT BE NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 2:22 AM CST, 31 minutes before
TXZ031-037-190915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 220 AM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 200 AM TO 800 AM THIS FRIDAY MORNING FOR BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL...AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT... AT 215 AM CST A FEW SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER LIMESTONE COUNTY NORTH OF GROESBECK...SOUTHEAST FALLS COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF MARLIN AND SOUTHERN ROBERTSON COUNTY NEAR FRANKLIN. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION HAD MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF CENTRAL TEXAS AND EXTENDED NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR GLEN ROSE TO NORTHEAST OF CORSICANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM ABILENE TO SAN ANGELO TO HONDO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. < PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLASH FLOODING THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. THE THREAT FOR FLOODING HAS DECREASED SINCE MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THE THREAT MAY BE RENEWED AS MORE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATER TONIGHT OR EARLY IN THE MORNING. CENTRAL TEXANS SHOULD ALSO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD MOVE MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATER TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 11:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 3 hr |
| Jan 19, 1:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 1:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wood | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 1:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 11:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 53 min |
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.