Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Fort Worth, TX

TXZ031-037-181935-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
135 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

AT 130 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
EXTENDED WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRENHAM TO 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF STEPHENVILLE.  THE AREA EXTENDED WESTWARD TO A LINE FROM NEAR
BROWNWOOD TO SOUTH OF AUSTIN.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OCCURRING OVER
CORYELL COUNTY SOUTH OF GATESVILLE AND EXTREME EASTERN LAMPASAS COUNTY
20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMPASAS.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN
HOUR.

PERSONS IN CORYELL COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR BRIEF VERY HEAVY
RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

TX025-182030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
220 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

AT 215 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
JUST SOUTHEAST OF COMANCHE. ANEOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST
SOUTHWEST OF COMANCHE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS
AND VERY HEAVY RAINS.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

TXZ031-037-182055-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
250 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CORYELL COUNTY IS NO LONGER
IN EFFECT...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...
BRAZOS...CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...MCLENNAN...ROBERTSON...GRIMES...
WASHINGTON AND MILAM COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 240 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES EAST
OF GEORGETOWN TO NEAR GATESVILLE TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF STEPHENVILLE.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER EXTREME NORTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY
NORTHWEST OF GRANGER...AND 5 MILES EAST OF GATESVILLE IN CORYELL COUNTY
AND ON THE BOSQUE/HAMILTON COUNTY LINE SOUTHWEST OF MERIDIAN.  MOVEMENT
WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN BELL...CORYELL AND BOSQUE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT
FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.

TX025-026-182130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
310 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

AT 305 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EASTERN COMANCHE AND WESTERN ERATH
COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUST%Y WINDS
AND VERY HEAVY RAINS.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

TXZ031-037-182140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
340 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...
BRAZOS...CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...MCLENNAN...ROBERTSON...GRIMES...
WASHINGTON AND MILAM COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 335 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NORTH AND EAST OF A
LINE FROM NORTHWEST OF HOUSTON TO NEAR GEORGETOWN TO 15 MILES EAST OF
COMANCHE.  THE AREA EXTENDED TO A LINE FROM NORTH OF HOUSTON TO
NORTHWEST OF CROCKETT TO NEAR WAXAHACHIE.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS
OCCURRING  OVER ROBERTSON COUNTY NEAR FRANKLIN...OVER MCLENNAN COUNTY
10 MILES WEST OF WACO AND OVER NORTHEAST LEON COUNTY 20 MILES NORTHEAST
OF CENTERVILLE.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN MCLENNAN...ROBERSTON AND LEON COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE
LOOKOUT FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEUATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER
INFORMATION.

TX026>027-031-182300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
505 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

AT 500 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A WIDESPREAD AREA OF SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...WERE OCCURRING
OVER A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.  THIS AREA OF
PRECIPITATION STRETCEHED FROM NEAR BROWNWOOD TO PALESTINE AND FROM AUSTIN
...NORTHWARD TO THE TEXAS-OKLAHOMA BORDER EAST OF SHERMAN.  THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHEAST PART OF HILL COUNTY AND
IN THE WESTERN PART OF NAVARRO COUNTY BETWEEN NAVARRO MILLS LAKE...SILVER
CITY AND DAWSON.  MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE NORTHERN
PART OF MCLENNAN COUNTY ON THE NORTH EDGE OF CHALK BLUFF AROUND 425 PM
FROM THIS SAME COMPLEX OF STORMS MOVING INTO NAVARRO COUNTY.  HOWEVER...THE
THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE IN THEIR DISSIPATING STAGE AND ONLY PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN AT THE PRESENT TIME.

PERSONS IN THE AREA ARE REMINDED THAT THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION.