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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 31, 1990Wilbarger County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1990, 11:30 PM CDT for Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports 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: May 31, 1990, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1990, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Wilbarger 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
May 31, 11:30 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Wilbarger, TX
May 31, 11:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Wilbarger, 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 31, 7:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 9:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Foard, Hardeman	55 min
May 31, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wichita	64 min
May 31, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fisher	61 min
Jun 1, 12:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Knox	29 min
Jun 1, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Knox	29 min
Jun 1, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell	57 min
Jun 1, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Baylor	59 min
Jun 1, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	55 min
Jun 1, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	42 min
Jun 1, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	62 min
Jun 1, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	47 min
Jun 1, 6:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Knox	44 min
Jun 1, 7:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Baylor, Knox	65 min
Jun 1, 7:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Foard	55 min
Jun 1, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stonewall	67 min
Jun 1, 8:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hardeman, Wilbarger	58 min
Jun 1, 9:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Baylor, Knox	64 min
Jun 1, 9:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Foard	69 min
Jun 1, 9:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	54 min
Jun 1, 10:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	52 min
Jun 1, 10:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	61 min
Jun 1, 11:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	62 min
Jun 1, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stonewall	62 min
Jun 1, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	43 min
Jun 1, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	62 min
Jun 1, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	56 min
Jun 1, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	58 min
Jun 1, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	59 min
Jun 1, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Rockwall	61 min
Jun 1, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Knox	40 min
Jun 1, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Baylor	46 min
Jun 1, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fisher, Scurry	68 min
Jun 1, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stonewall	56 min
Jun 1, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fisher	62 min
Jun 1, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Knox	40 min
Jun 1, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell, Jones	58 min
Jun 1, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell, Jones	57 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.