Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1990, 5:03 PM CDT for Haskell County, Jones County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1990, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Jones, TX | |
| May 14, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Jones, TX | |
| May 14, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Jones, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, May 14, 11:32 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 14, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
TXZ019>033-142300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 305 PM CDT MON MAY 14 1990 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF NORTH TEXAS. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE THROUGH GAINESVILLE... MINERAL WELLS... AND SAN ANGELO. THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP AT 300 PM FROM WEST OF CHILDRESS TO BETWEEN ABILENE AND LUBBOCK... OR ALONG THE DRY LINE. TEMPERATURES IN THIS AREA HAD SOARED INTO THE 90S AT 300 PM... WITH LUBBOCK AT 93 AND MIDLAND AT 97. THESE WARM TEMPERATURES WERE OCCURRING IN THE CLEAR AIR NEAR THE DRY LINE... AND COMBINED WITH THE HIGH VALUES OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE EAST OF THE DRIER AIR...WERE PRODUCING LIFTED INDEX VALUES... A MEASURE OF INSTABILITY... INTO THE MINUS 14 TO MINUS 16 RANGE. THESE VALUES ARE CONSIDERED TO BE VERY UNSTABLE... SO ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP IN THIS UNSTABLE AIR WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE VERY QUICKLY. THIS WILL LIKELY OCCUR BEFORE 500 PM. SOME HIGH BASED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE PERSISTED ALL DAY FROM MINERAL WELLAS TO WICHITA FALLS WERE NOT WELL ORGANIZED BUT WERE KEEPING SURFACE TEMPERATURES DOWN IN THAT AREA. THIS WAS KEEPING THE AIR TEMPORARILY MORE STABLE BETWEEN MINERAL WELLS AND WICHITA FALLS... BUT THE RESULTING TEMPERATURES CONTRASTS BETWEEN THIS AREA AND THE WARMER AIR TO THE WEST MAY EVENTUALLY ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THAT AREA THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO INCREASED LOW LEVEL WIND CONVERGENCE. ANOTHER AREA WHERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... WHERE A RAIN-COOLED BOUNDARY INTERSECTED A COLD FRONT. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS WILL WANT TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LATER WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTENOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST WITH THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW... BUTJ WILL TEND TO DIMINISH A FEW HOURS AFTER SUNSET SINCE THE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT IS MINIMAL.
Special weather statement, May 14, 5:01 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
TXZ019>020-024>025-029>030-150300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 500 PM CDT MON MAY 14 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EASTLAND AND STEPHENS COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM TONIGHT... AT 455 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL TEXAS FROM DENISON TO BRECKENRIDGE TO WACO. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OCCURRING BETWEEN ANSON AND ASPERMONT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN EASTLAND OR STEPHENS COUNTIES ...CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND CLOSE TO THIS AREA THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PERSONS IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 60 min |
| May 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones | 67 min |
| May 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Foard, Hardeman | 58 min |
| May 14, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell | 63 min |
| May 14, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 61 min |
| May 14, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones | 64 min |
| May 14, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Knox | 69 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.