Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1990, 9:06 PM CDT for Kaufman County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report 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 16, 1990, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1990, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kaufman 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 16, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Kaufman, 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 2570 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.1
- Supercell composite
- 18.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 170207 SVRFTW TXC257-170315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 906 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...KAUFMAN COUNTY AT 905 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF KEMP IN SOUTHEASTERN KAUFMAN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY MOVE JUST NORTH OF MABANK AT 920 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ019>033-162200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 315 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 THERE CONTINUES A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THE REMANINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS. THE RISK AREA IS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE THROUGH GAINESSVILLE... FORT WORTH... AND LAMPASAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WAS PUSHING THROUGH NORTH TEXAS TODAY. AT 300 PM THE FRONT WAS LOCATED ROUGHLY FROM NEAR GAINESVILLE... TO MINERAL WELLS... TO JUNCTION. TEMPERATURES WERE QUITE WARM IN THE CLEAR... DRY AIR BEHIND THE FRONT... WITH READINGS INTO THE MID 90S AT ABILENE AND SAN ANGELO. THESE WARM TEMPERATURES... COMBINED WITH THE HIGH HUMIDITY VALUES EAST OF THE FRONT... ARE CAUSING LIFTED INDICES INTO THE MINUS TEN TO MINUS TWELVE RANGE... WHICH IS CONSIDERED MODERATELY TO STRONGLY UNSTABLE. A PERSISTENT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON IN THE UNSTABLE AIR OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS. AT 300 PM THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN SULPHER SPRINGS AND TEXARKANA... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST. BASEBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT SULPHUR SPRINGS AROUND 130 PM... AND STRONG WINDS DOWNED TREES WEST OF MT PLEASANT AROUND 250 PM. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ANY TIME THE REMAINDER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SEVERE THUNDESTORM WATCH NUMBER 265 WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS WILL WANT TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
TXZ021-022-023-025-026-027-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 435 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR THE NORTHERN PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS...GENERALLY NORTH OF A FORT WORTH TO GILMER LINE. THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX IS INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA. AT 430 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A DEVELOPING SMALL AREA OF DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND A THUNDERSTORM EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF GAINESVILLE TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF SHERMAN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE EXTREME NORTHEAST PART OF NORTH TEXAS JUST SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF TEXARdKANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
TXZ031-162235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 440 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 AT 431 PM CDT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWER WAS DEVELOPING NEAR GROESBECK. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILEjS AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
Special weather statement, May 16, 6:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ021-022-023-025-026-027-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 645 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR THE NORTHERN PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS...GENERALLY NORTH OF A FORT WORTH TO GILMER LINE. THE CITIES OF GAINESVILLE...SHERMAN... PARIS...CLARKSVILLE...GREENVILLE...SULPHUR SPRINGS...MOUNT PLEASANT... AND THE DALLAS/FORT METROPLEX ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA... AT 640 PM CDT...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER COLLIN COUNTY NEAR PLANO AND IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FANNIN COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BONHAM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS EXTENDING FROM WRIGHT PATMAN RESERVOIR INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. PERSONS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:38 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
TXZ031-170235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 840 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 AT 835 PM CDT ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING OVER BOSQUE COUNTY NEAR MERIDIAN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 38 min |
| May 16, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 41 min |
| May 16, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 55 min |
| May 16, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 48 min |
| May 16, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Morris, Titus | 45 min |
| May 16, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin | 40 min |
| May 16, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Red River | 30 min |
| May 16, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 63 min |
| May 16, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Morris | 43 min |
| May 16, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 66 min |
| May 16, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 67 min |
| May 16, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.