Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1990, 8:17 AM CDT for Hardeman County, Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 1, 1990, 8:17 AM CDT (13:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1990, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardeman County, TX, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:28 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hardeman, TX | |
| Jun 1, 8:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | 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 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -517 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPS 011318 SVRSPS TXC197-487-011415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 817 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...HARDEMAN COUNTY...WILBARGER COUNTY AT 812 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN HARDEMAN COUNTY MOVING INTO WESTERN WILBARGER COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE HEAVIEST PART OF THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD PASS TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF VERNON. CLILLICOTHE LOCKETT AND ODELL ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS KNOX..BAYLOR AND FOARD COUNTIES MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR P_ROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS 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, Jun 1, 5:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ031-011145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 548 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS THAT SPENT MOST OF THE NIGHT ROAMING THROUGH THE WESTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS...ARE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AT 540 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWER...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM DALLAS/FORT WORTH...SOUTHWEST...TO NEAR HAMILTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES BY 700 AM CDT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. 08 N
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
TXZ021>024>026-029>031-011200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 550 AM CDT FRI JUN 01 1990 AT 545 AM CDT...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM THE RED RIVER BETWEEN SHERMAN AND PARIS...SOUTHWARD TO FORT WORTH TO STEPHENVILLE TO COMANCHE AND SAN SABA. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS NOW OVER NORTHERN MILLS...SOUTHERN COMANCHE AND WESTERN PARKER COUNTIES ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELLING IN OR THROUGH THE RAINY AREAS IN NORTH TEXAS TODAY DUE TO WET AND SLICK ROADS. ALSO... HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS COULD CAUSE SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS SHOULD CONDITIONS REQUIRE.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 6:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
TXZ019>022-024>026-029>31-020600 SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 630 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY WEST OF A WICHITA FALLS TO ABILENE LINE. THERE IS A SIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY WEST OF A PARIS TO BELTON LINE...EXCLUDING THE MODERATE RISK AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTH TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT ...WITH WARM MOIST AIR CONTINUING TO FLOW INTO THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHEAST. DAYTIME TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S WITH DEW POINT TEMPERATURES IN THE 70S...WILL MAKE THE AIR OVER NORTH TEXAS VERY UNSTABLE BY THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE TRIGGERED TODAY IN WEST TEXAS...BY AN UPPER AIR TROUGH THAT WILL MOVE OVER THE DRY LINE...ALSO LOCATED IN WEST TEXAS. THE DRY LINE SEPARATES DRY AIR IN THE WEST FROM MOIST AIR TO THE EAST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL QUICKLY FORM A SQUALL LINE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE. ANOTHER AREA OF POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT IS INTERSECTION POINTS FROM SEVERAL THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT RESULTED FROM LAST NIGHTS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THE MAIN DYNAMICS FROM THE UPPER AIR TROUGH SHOULD SWEEP NORTHEASTWARD INTO OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS TONIGHT. AS THE TROUGH MOVES EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...THE DRYLINE WILL TRACK EASTWARD INTO NORTH TEXAS. THE EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE DRYLINE AND ITS ASSOCIATED SQUALL LINE INTO NORTH TEXAS WILL BE ENHANCED BY PRESSURE FALLS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTH TEXAS CAUSED BY THE STRONG SURFACE HEATING. LOW LEVEL SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS WILL BRING ABUNDANT MOISTURE INTO THE SQUALL LINE COMPLEX. THUS...SOME THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME SEVERE DUE TO AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND A FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL WIND FIELD WHEN THEY MOVE ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTR5AL PART OF NORTH TEXAS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN THE WESTERN 1/3 OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD EXPECT ACTIVATION BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THOSE IN THE CENTRAL 1/3 BY THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 6:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
TXZ031-011245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 636 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 630 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS COVERED AN AREA BOUNDED BY MINERAL WELLS...FORT WORTH...AND SAN SABA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN WESTERN CORYELL COUNTY BY 700 AM...AND ARE NOW ENTERING NORTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY.4 AS THESE SHOWERS MOVE THROUGH YOU CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...AND BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADWAYS... LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. 08
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ021>024>026-029>031-011200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 700 AM CDT FRI JUN 01 1990 AT 655 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND VERY HEAVY RAINSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM THE RED RIVER BETWEEN CLARKSVILLE AND PARIS...SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX...INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE HILL COUNTRY NEAR SAN SABA. THE HAVIEST RAINFALL WAS FROM CLEBURNE TO DALLAS AND OVER THE HILL COUNTRY NEAR GOLDTHWAITE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS HASKELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS BETWEEN WICHITA FALLS AND ABILENE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. TRAVELERS AND COMMUTERS IN NORTH TEXAS ARE ADVISED THAT THE ROADS ARE WET AiND SLICK. YOU MAY WANT TO ADJUST YOUR TRAVEL SCHEDULE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY AND ARRIVE ON TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:39 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
TXZ031-011345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 739 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 735 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED NORTH OF A LINE FROM WAXAHACHI...SOUTHWEST...THROUGH HILLSBORO TO LAMPASAS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED THROUGH NORTHERN BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES...AND WESTERN CORYELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORIST USE CAUTION THIS MORNING DRIVING THROUGH THESE RAIN AREAS. YOU CAN EXPECT BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. 08
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, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wilbarger | 60 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, 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.