Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1990, 9:56 PM CST for Haskell County, Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1990, 9:56 PM CST (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1990, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haskell County, TX, Throckmorton 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1209 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, Mar 28, 5:16 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
TXZ031-037-290045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 510 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING SOUTH OF THE WACO AREA... AT 5:00 PM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN MCLENNAN COUNTY SOUTH OF WACO...EXTENDING SOUTH ACROSS FALLS COUNTY INTO NORTHWEST ROBERTSON COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST SOUTHEAST OF LOTT IN FALLS COUNTY. FURTHER SOUTH...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD BECOME NUMEROUS OVER AN AREA FROM BRENHAM AND SOMERVILLE NORTHEAST TO EAST OF CROCKETT. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED EAST OF SOMERVILLE AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO SOUTHERN BRAZOS COUNTY SHORTLY. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL^ HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. < STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:43 PM CST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
TXZ031-037-290145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 635 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DECREASING OVER CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 6:25 PM SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF GROESBECK TO NEAR CALDWELL. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAINFALL ALTHOUGH SOME DECREASE IN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAS OCCURRED IN THIS AREA DURING THE PAST HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE STILL NUMEROUS OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FROM NORMANGEE IN SOUTHWEST MADISON COUNTY...TO SOUTHEAST BRAZOS COUNTY...AND EASTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF NAVASOTA NEAR THE BRAZOS COUNTY LINE. HOWEVER...THIS PARTICULAR STORM WAS MOVING EAST AND SHOULD NOT AFFECT BRAZOS COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST OF THE BRAZOS RIVER WILL BE TRACKING ACROSS <BRAZOS COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...AS WELL AS FALLS AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES SHOULD CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 8:04 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
TXZ031-037-290330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 800 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 AT 8:00 PM RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FROM BREMOND IN NORTHWEST ROBERTSON COUNTY...EAST AND SOUTHEAST ACROSS MADISON AND NORTHERN BRAZOS COUNTIES INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM MADISON COUNTY EASTWARD. MOVEMENT WAS EASTWARD AT 25 MPH.D STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 9:29 PM CST, 27 minutes before
TXZ037-290430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 930 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 AT 9:25 PM RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER LEON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL TEXAS...AND SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF MADISON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 56 min |
| Mar 28, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Knox | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Baylor, Knox | 61 min |
| Mar 28, 11:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 59 min |
| Mar 29, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 61 min |
| Mar 29, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 61 min |
| Mar 29, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 1:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Red River | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin, Hunt | 4 hr |
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.