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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 17, 1990Hill County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1990, 11:05 AM CST for Hill County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 17, 1990, 11:05 AM CST (17:05 UTC)
Expired: Jan 17, 1990, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Hill 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 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 978 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 17, 7:15 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 17, 8:26 AM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 17, 8:39 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before

TXZ019>033-171600

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
840 AM CST WED JAN 17 1990

  ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TRACK EAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...

AT 8:35 AM CST...A BAND OF  THUNDERSTORMS  EXTENDED  SOUTHWEST  OUT  OF
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA  INTO  NORTHEAST  TEXAS  NEAR  PARIS...CONTINUING TO
THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE GREENVILLE AND EAST DALLAS AREAS TO NORTHEAST
OF WACO.  WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS  WERE  MOVING NORTHEAST  THE AREA WAS
MOVING EAST BOTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THE HEAVIEST  RAINFALL  WAS INDICATED IN THE PARIS AND GREENVILLE AREAS
AND APPROACHING SULPHUR SPRINGS.

ALSO..OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING BACK WEST ALONG A GAINESVILLE...
DECATUR...MINERAL WELLS LINE. MOVEMENT EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO  OR  LOCAL  NEWS  MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER EVENT.

Special weather statement, Jan 17, 9:40 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

TXZ031-171535-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
940 AM CST WED JAN 17 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS CONTINUE THROUGH NORTH TEXAS...

AT 935 AM CST THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE
SCATTERED FROM NEAR COMANCHE...NORTHEAST...TO NEAR FT WORTH...AND
FROM NEAR HILLSBORO TO WAXAHACHIE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 40 MPH.

OTHERWISE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR TEMPLE
TO ATHENFS. MOVING NORTHEAST 40 MILES AN HOUR.

BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH
THE AREA.
STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
OR ADVISORIES.

Special weather statement, Jan 17, 10:17 AM CST, 48 minutes before

TXZ019>033-171700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1015 AM CST WED JAN 17 1990

          ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...

AT 10:10 AM...WEATHER  SERVICE RADAR  INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS
STRETCHING SOUTHWEST FROM THE BONHAM AND SHERMAN VICINITIES THROUGH THE
DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX TO THE STEPHENVILLE AREA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST
AT 35 MILES AN HOUR WITH INDIVIDUAL STORMS TRACKING NORTHEAST AT ALMOST
50 MILES AN HOUR.

THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS  INDICATED IN SOUTHWEST TARRANT AND SOUTHEAST
PARKER COUNTY BETWEEN BURLESON AND CRESSON.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF  PRODUCING  GUSTY  WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND
BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND URBAN AREAS. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS...
ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE EVENTS.

AT 10:05 AM...PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN HALTOM CITY...JUST EAST OF
FORT WORTH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER
INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER EVENT.

Special weather statement, Jan 17, 10:19 AM CST, 46 minutes before

TXZ031-171615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1020 AM CST WED JAN 17 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS CONTINUE CENTRAL AND NORTH TEXAS...

AT 1015 AM CST THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE
LOCATED IN NORTHERN HAMILTON AND BOSQUE COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST
40 MILES AN HOUR.

OTHERWISE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM 20 MILES
NORTH OF WACO...NORTHEAST...TO NEAR KAUFMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST 40
MILES AN HOUR.

BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH
THESE AREAS.
STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
OR ADVISORIES.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 17, 12:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	65 min
Jan 17, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	67 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.