Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 97, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1990, 4:41 AM CDT for Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1990, 4:41 AM CDT (09:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1990, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellis 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 414 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 020945 FFWFTW TXC139-221-251-379-467-499-021345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 441 AM CDT WED MAY 2 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...ELLIS COUNTY...HOOD COUNTY...JOHNSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...RAINS COUNTY...VAN ZANDT COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY AT 440 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF RAIN OVER MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WERE CONCENTRATED IN AN AREA FROM NEAR KAUFMAN TO NEAR MT. PLEASANT... OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO THE AREA FROM NEAR GRANBURY TO NEAR WAXAHACHEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN BOTH OF THESE AREAS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS IN AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED ABUNDANT RAINS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. 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, May 1, 11:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ031-037-020545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1143 PM CDT TUE MAY 1 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH WEDNESDAY... AT 1140 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM NEAR JOHNSON CITY TO NEAR JACKSONVILLE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER EXTREME WESTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY NEAR CALVERT...OVER EXTREME EASTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF GROESMBECK AND OVER SOUTHERN FALLS COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF MARLIN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Special weather statement, May 2, 12:06 AM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ031-037-020600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1205 AM CDT WED MAY 2 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 1201 AM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST OF JOHNSON CITY TO NEAR TYLER. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER EXTREME WESTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF BREMOND AND EXTREME WESTERN BELL CpOUNTY SOUTHWEST OF KILLEEN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 2, 1:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ031-037-020600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 130 AM CDT WED MAY 2 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 125 AM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF AUSTIN TO TYLER. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER EXTREME EASTERM LIMESTONE COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF FAIRFIELD AND EXTREME SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY SOUTH OF TEMPLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 2, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
TXZ031-037-020850- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 248 AM CDT WED MAY 2 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 239 AM CDT NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...COVERED A MAJOR PORTION OF CENTRAL TEXAS AND EXTENDED INTO NORTH TEXAS. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS IN SOUTHERN FALLLS COUNTY...NEAR ROSEBUD ...AND IN SOUTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY...SOUTH AND WEST OF CLIFTON. ALSO LIGHT RAIN WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER SHOWERS WAS OVER NORTHEAST ROBERTSON COUNTY...WESTERN LEON AND MOST OF MADISON COUNTY. ELSEWHERE...AN INCREASING AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM FREDERICKSBURG...TO MARBLE FALLS TO JARRELL...AND WAS MOVING TOWARDS SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY. < ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE WACO OFFICE ...CENTRAL TEXAS RNESIDENTS SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF THIS POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS. 07
Special weather statement, May 2, 4:25 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
TXZ031-037-021025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 424 AM CDT WED MAY 2 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 403 AM CDT NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE NORTH OF A LINE...FROM COMANCHE...TO MERIDIAN...TO NEAR CORSICANA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER NORTHERN HILL COUNTY...FROM ITASCA TO SOUTH OF CLEBURNE. RESIDENTS IN NORTHERN HILL COUNTY CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES UNTIL THESE STROMS MOVE NORTHEAST AND OUT OF THE AREA. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OVER CORYELL COUNTY. LIGHT RAIN AND ISOLATED HEAVIER SHOWERS WERE OVER EASTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY AND SPREAD SOUTHEAST INTO LEON COUNTY. < ANOTHER AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM MASON... TO BURNET...TO ROGERS...AND COVERED MOST OF BELL COUNTY. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF FLOODING IN THE DALLAS/FT WORTH AREA DURING THE NIGHT...AND MOTORISTS PLANNING TO TRAVEL NORTH ALONG I-35 ARE URGED TO EXTREME CAUTION NORTH OF THE HILLSBORO AREA. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE DAY...ALONG WITH POSSIBLE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 10:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Somervell, Tarrant | 4 hr |
| May 1, 10:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath | 4 hr |
| May 1, 11:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 4 hr |
| May 1, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson | 4 hr |
| May 2, 12:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt, Rockwall | 4 hr |
| May 2, 1:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 4 hr |
| May 2, 1:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 4 hr |
| May 2, 4:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson | 4 hr |
| May 2, 4:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt, Wood | 4 hr |
| May 2, 6:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 4 hr |
| May 2, 6:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Parker, Tarrant | 4 hr |
| May 2, 6:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 4 hr |
| May 2, 11:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wichita | 4 hr |
| May 2, 11:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Young | 4 hr |
| May 2, 12:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 2, 1:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke | 4 hr |
| May 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Taylor | 3 hr |
| May 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 3 hr |
| May 2, 3:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 4 hr |
| May 2, 3:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Archer, Jack, Young | 4 hr |
| May 2, 3:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Clay, Montague | 4 hr |
| May 2, 3:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wichita | 4 hr |
| May 2, 5:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 4 hr |
| May 2, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 4 hr |
| May 2, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Taylor | 3 hr |
| May 2, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 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.