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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 403, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 1990Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1990, 4:42 PM CDT for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1990, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Parker 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 1684 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.3

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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, Jun 3, 10:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 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
Jun 3, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	52 min
Jun 3, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	43 min
Jun 3, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	47 min
Jun 3, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	46 min
Jun 3, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	62 min
Jun 3, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	66 min
Jun 3, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	67 min
Jun 3, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	67 min
Jun 3, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	63 min
Jun 3, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Navarro	48 min
Jun 3, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson	68 min
Jun 3, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	67 min
Jun 3, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	66 min
Jun 3, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cherokee	59 min
Jun 3, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	55 min
Jun 3, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	65 min
Jun 3, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	46 min
Jun 3, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	43 min
Jun 3, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	47 min
Jun 3, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	69 min
Jun 3, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill	34 min
Jun 3, 6:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson	2 hr
Jun 3, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cherokee	27 min
Jun 3, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	11 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1990 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.