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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 470, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 7, 1990Hopkins County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 1990, 5:34 PM CDT for Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
Oct 7, 1990, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Oct 7, 1990, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hopkins 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 7, 6:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Hopkins, 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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, Oct 7, 12:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 7, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
TXZ019>033-072300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
415 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 1990

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT...

THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES ALL OF THE COUNTIES ALONG AND NORTH OF A GRANBURY
TO CARTHAGE LINE IN NORTH TEXAS.  THIS AREA INCLUDES THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH
METROPLEX AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES... AS WELL AS THE CITIES OF SHERMAN...
PARIS...GREENVILLE...TYLER AND LONGVIEW.

AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR CLARKSVILLE TO COOPER TO GREENVILLE
TO DALLAS.  ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING JUST TO THE WEST
OF EASTLAND.  THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE SOME OF THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE REMINDED THAT/ THEY ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...DAMAGING SURFACE WINDS...
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LARGE HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 5:23 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
TXZ022-026-027-072300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
525 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 1990

AT 525 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER LAKE TAWAKONI.  THE STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF GREENVILLE.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS
AND SOME HAIL.  PERONS ON LAKE TAWAKONI SHOULD MOVE TO SAFETY IMMEDIATELY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 7, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins60 min
Oct 7, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Rains65 min
Oct 7, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFranklin, Titus65 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.