Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 417, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1990, 8:01 PM CDT for Falls County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1990, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1990, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Falls 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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, 7:26 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
TXZ031-032-040130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 723 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...A TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN LIMESTONE COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR MCLENNAN COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 720 PM CDT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM LAKE WHITNEY THROUGH WEST TO NEAR MEXIA. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE THE AREA WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST. PERSONS IN THE MENTIONED AREAS CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ALSO THE POSSIBLITY OF A TORNADO IS POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Limestone | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 68 min |
| Jun 3, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.