Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1990, 4:23 PM CST for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 17, 1990, 4:23 PM CST (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 1990, 5:30 PM CST
- 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
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KACT 172228
SVRACT
TXC309-172330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
423 PM CST WED JAN 17 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WACO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
...MCLENNAN
AT 425 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF
WACO. NICKLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BETWEEN WACO AND GHOLSON.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RA
INS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Jan 17, 12:29 PM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
TXZ031-171825- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1230 PM CST WED JAN 17 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM FOR HILL COUNTY... AT 1225 PM POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOATED NEAR WHITNEY AND HILLSBORO...IN CENTRAL HILL COUNTY...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MPH. OTHERWISE...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM AUSTIN TO BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION...THROUGH WACO AND HILLSBORO AND ON NORTHEAST. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR ADVISORIES.
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 1:17 PM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
TXZ031-171910- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 115 PM CST WED JAN 17 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HILL COUNTY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. AT 110 PM CST THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ...WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM COPERAS COVE TO WHITNEY...AND NEAR SOMERVILLE... SOUTHWEST OF BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 50 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR ADVISORIES.
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 2:19 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ031-172015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 220 PM CST WED JAN 17 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST... THE COUNTIES AFFECTED IN CENTRAL TEXAS ARE...BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL ...FALLS...HILL...LIMESTONE...MCLENNAN...LEON...BRAZOS...ROBERTSON... AND MADISON. THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THIS AREA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 50 MILES AN H^OUR. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 2:31 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
TXZ019>033-172115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 230 PM CST WED JAN 17 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS FROM 2 PM UNTIL 7 PM THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING. THE WATCH AREA IS GENERALLY FOR THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS SOUTH AND EAST OF A GILMER...CANTON...WAXAHACHIE...LAMKIN...LAMPASAS LINE. SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE ATHENS...CORSICANA...LONGVIEW...RUSK... AND TYLER. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND DAMAGING WIND. AT 2:25 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ALONG THE NORTH PART OF THE AREA UNDER THE WATCH...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL INDICATED IN SOUTHERN ELLIS...HILL...SOUTHERN BOSQUE...AND NORTHERN CORYELL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN pHOUR WHILE THE AREA PROGRESSED EAST. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER EVENT.
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 3:03 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
TXZ19>33-180300 SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 310 PM CST WED JAN 17 1990 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT GENERALLY EAST OF A BROWNWOOD-PARIS LINE. THE GREATEST THREAT OF WIND AND HAIL DAMAGE AND HEAVY RAINFALL DURING THE NEXT 4 TO 6 HOURS WILL BE ALONG AND ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A TEMPLE-LONGVIEW LINE. A STATIONARY FRONT WAS NEAR A DEL RIO-FORT WORTH-SHERMAN LINE AT MID-AFTERNOON WITH A SECONDARY RAIN-COOLED BOUNDARY NEAR A WACO- LONGVIEW LINE. UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID AIR WAS RUSHING NORTHWARD EAST OF THE FRONT...CONVERGING INTO THE AREA OF THE RAIN-COOLED BOUNDARY. VERY UNSTABLE AIR AND STRONG WINDS ALOFT WILL INSURE THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PERIODICALLY DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHEAST ALONG THE RAIN-COOLED BOUNDARY DURING THE NEXT 6 TO 12 HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...AND A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND FOSTER LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. BEYOND THE NEXT 12 HOURS A HEAVY RAINFALL AND SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS SHAPING UP FOR THE SOUTHEAST 2/3 OF NORTH TEXAS FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE CENTER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD AND CAUSE THE LOW AND MIDDLE LEVEL WINDS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TO STRENGTHEN AND BECOME MORE SOUTHERLY WITH TIME. THESE SOUTHERLY WINDS ALOFT WILL FORCE THE BOUNDARIES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TO HOLD IN PLACE...OR EVEN BACK TO THE NORTHWEST SLIGHTLY THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. REPEATED BURSTS OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE VICINITY OF THESE BOUNDARIES WILL RESULT IN A CONTINUED THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND SEVERE WEATHER. IT APPEARS THAT THE RECENT DRY PERIOD IS OVER WITH...AND THAT THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL INCREASE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS AS RAINFALL RESULTS IN INCREASINGLY SATURATED SOIL. FLASH FLOOD WATCHES AND/OR WARNINGS HAVE NOT BEEN ISSUED...BUT ARE POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT OR THURSDAY AS THE FLOOD THREAT BECOMES BETTER DEFINED.
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 3:12 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
TXZ031-172110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 315 PM CST WED JAN 17 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR GATESVILLE...NORTHEAST...TO LAKE DAWSON. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWER...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION...NORTHEAST THROUGH MIDWAY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 50 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR ADVISORIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 11:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 55 min |
| Jan 17, 12:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 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.