Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Fort Worth, TX

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.

TXZ031-037-190040-

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

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BOSQUE 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 640 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME
EASTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY NORTHEAST OF MEXIA AND OVER EXTREME NORTHERN
BOSQUE COUNTY 15 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN.  ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN TO 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF JOHNSON CITY TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURNET.  MOVEMENT
EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND
HAIL.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER
INFORMATION.

TX027-032-033-190100-

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

AT 640 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAINS...WERE OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS
GENERALLY EAST OF A SHERMAN TO FORT WORTH TO WACO LINE.  THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST FREESTONE COUNTY BETWEEN STREETMAN AND
FAIRFIELD...AND IN ANDERSON COUNTY NORTH OF PALESTINE.  ANOTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF VAN ZANDT COUNTY EAST
OF MABANK.  MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS GENERALLY TO THE NORTHEAST
OF 35 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS NOW OVER THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS
ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS
...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL.

MOST OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD START TO DISSIPATE OR DECREASE
IN INTENSITY AND AREAL COVERAGE AROUND SUNSET.  IN THE MEAN TIME...STAY
TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.

TX027-032-033-190100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT               ...CORRECTION FIRST PARAGRAPH...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
645 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

AT 640 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAINS...WERE OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS
GENERALLY EAST OF A SHERMAN TO FORT WORTH TO WACO LINE.  THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST FREESTONE COUNTY BETWEEN STREETMAN AND
FAIRFIELD...AND IN ANDERSON COUNTY NORTH OF PALESTINE.  ANOTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF VAN ZANDT COUNTY EAST
OF MABANK.  MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS GENERALLY TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS NOW OVER THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS
ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS
...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL.

MOST OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORM$S SHOULD START TO DISSIPATE OR DECREASE
IN INTENSITY AND AREAL COVERAGE AROUND SUNSET.  IN THE MEAN TIME...STAY
TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.