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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1990, 6:11 PM CST for Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 6, 1990, 6:11 PM CST (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1990, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stephens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 6:25 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Stephens, 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
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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, Mar 6, 2:40 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
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TXZ021-025-026-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 545 PM CST TUE MAR 6 1990 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...MOVING OVER THE WEST AND NORTHWEST PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 540 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED DEVELOPING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...EXTENDING FROM NEAR SAN ANGELO NORTH TO NEAR ALBANY...AND NORTHEASTWARD TO GRAHAM AND JACKSBORO. SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS WERE OVER THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 50 min |
| Mar 6, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 67 min |
| Mar 6, 8:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 8:47 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 118 min |
| Mar 7, 2:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 4 hr |
| Mar 7, 4:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 6:10 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill, McLennan | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 58 min |
| Mar 7, 12:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 69 min |
| Mar 7, 12:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Wood | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin, Hopkins | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 4:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Titus | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.