Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 428, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1990, 3:32 AM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 24, 1990, 3:32 AM CDT (08:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1990, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wise 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 24, 3:45 AM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Wise, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2322 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 24, 2:53 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ020-021-022-026-240800- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 250 AM CDT SUN JUN 24 1990 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR COOKE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 245 AM CDT... AT 245 AM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF COOKE AND WISE COUNTIES AND THE NORTHWEST PART OF DENTON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS RATE OF MOVEMENT...THESE STORMS WILL ENTER THE NORTH9ERN PART OF THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH MEXTROPLEX SHORTLY AFTER 3 AM. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WIND ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME HAIL. LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:54 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
TXZ020-021-022-026-240900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 250 AM CDT SUN JUN 24 1990 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR COOKE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 245 AM CDT... AT 245 AM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF COOKE AND WISE COUNTIES AND THE NORTHWEST PART OF DENTON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS RATE OF MOVEMENT...THESE STORMS WILL ENTER THE =NORTHERN PART OF THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH MEXTROPLEX SHORTLY AFTER 3 AM. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WIND ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME HAIL. LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 56 min |
| Jun 24, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 54 min |
| Jun 24, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 4:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 57 min |
| Jun 24, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 5:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton | 69 min |
| Jun 24, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 77 min |
| Jun 24, 6:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Somervell | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 41 min |
| Jun 24, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 9:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 61 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.