Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1990, 10:08 PM CDT for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1990, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1990, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County McLennan 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
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 16, 4:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 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, 5 hours 26 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, 3 hours 23 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, 1 hour 30 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, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 69 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, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 65 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.