Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 433, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1990, 5:21 AM CDT for Cooke County, Denton County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1990, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1990, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cooke County, TX, Denton 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 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, 2 hours 28 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, 2 hours 27 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:04 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ031-241103- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 503 AM CDT SUN JUN 24 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...MOVING INTO NORTH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 455 AM CDT AN AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERD THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM GLEN ROSE...TO JUST NORTH OF GRANDVIEW TO NEAR ENNIS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. AT THEIR PRESENT MOVEMENT THEY WILL BE ENTERING THE EXTREME NORTHEAST PORTION OF BOSQUE COUNTY AND THE NORTH PORTIONS OF HILL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 30 TO 45 MINUTES. RESIDENTS IN NORTHEAST BOSQUE AND NORTHERN HILL COUNTY CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AS THEY MOVED INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLIER IN THE MORNING. < STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS...OR WARNINGS SHOULD THE NEED ARISE. 07
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, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 58 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, 5:47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.