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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1990, 3:05 PM CDT for Titus County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1990, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1990, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Titus 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 995 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 162006 TORFTW TXC449-162045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 305 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...TITUS COUNTY AT 305 PM RADAR INDICATED THAT A TORNADO MAY BE TRYING TO DEVELOP IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST NORTH OF MOUNT PLEASANT. WINDS TO 60 MPH AND DOWNED TREES WERE REPORTED ON HIGHWAY 67 JUST WEST OF MOUNT PLEASANT AROUND 250 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, May 16, 9:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ021-022-023-025-026-027-161600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 950 AM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL NOON. THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX...GAINESVILLE...SHERMAN... PARIS...CLEBURNE...AND CORSICANA ARE JUST SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. AT 945 AM CDT...WEATHER RADARS INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE AREA WAS MAINLY EAST OF A SHERMAN...WEATHERFORD...STEPHENVILLE LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS NEAR THE RED RIVER IN RED RIVER COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 16, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ031-161630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1030 AM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS...BOSQUE...HILL... MCLENNAN AND LIMESTONE... AT 1025 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED THROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS...EXTENDING FROM DALLAS/FORT WORTH...THROUGH WACO TO AUSTIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 45 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE MENTIONED AREA CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. 08
Special weather statement, May 16, 11:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
TXZ021-022-023-025-026-027-161700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1100 AM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL STRIP OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL NOON. THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS STILL UNDER THE WATCH IS GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A BONHAM...DALLAS...HILLSBORO LINE...AND WEST OF A CLARKSVILLE...CORSICANA LINE. AT 1055 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERbS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS MOSTLY EAST OF A PARIS...DALLAS...WACO LINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 16, 11:23 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
TXZ019>033-162000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 1125 AM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER MOST OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE AREA OF RISK IS THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM HENRIETTA /CLAY COUNTY/ TO BRECKENRIDGE /STEPHENS COUNTY/ TO COLEMAN /COLEMAN COUNTY/. AT 1100 AM A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ROUGHLY FROM WICHITA FALLS TO A LITTLE WEST OF SAN ANGELO... MOVING SLOWLY EAST. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN THE WARM UNSTABLE AIR BY MID AFTERNOON... POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL ... STONG WINDS... OR TORNADOES. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLIER THIS MORNING WERE CONTINUNING AT MIDDAY FROM BETWEEN PARIS AND TEXARKANA...SOUTHWEST TO BETWEEN TYLER AND DALLAS... AND FURTHER SOUTH TO NEAR AUSTIN. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE THAT WAS MOVING AWAY FROM NORTH TEXAS. HOWEVER... THE CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM MAY TEND TO ENHANCE LOW LEVEL WINDS OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS LATER TODAY. STRONGEST INSTABILITES WERE LOCATED ALONG THE FRONT AT MIDDAY. AS DAYTIME HEATING PROGRESSES... THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT. LOW LEVEL WINDS ALONG THE FRONT ARE FAVORABLE FOR A FEW TORNADIC STORMS. CURRENT TRENDS INDICATE THAT THE COLD FRONT WILL REACH A LINE NEAR HENRIETTA...BRECKENRIGDE... COLEMAN BY EARLY AFTERNOON. BY THAT TIME TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE WARM ENOUGH TO INITIATE THUNDERSTORMS... A FEW OF WHICH COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE GAINESVILLE...DENTON... DALLAS/FORT WORTH...GRANBURY... COMANCHE AREAS BY LATE AFTERNOON... AND INTO THE SHERMAN...PARIS...TYLER...WACO AREAS BY EARLY EVENING. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS WILL WANT TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, May 16, 11:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
TXZ031-161800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1200 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BOSQUE...HILL...MCLENNAN AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS HAS EXPIRED AND IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 1150 AM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED BETWEEN TYLER AND AUSTIN...WITH A FEW SHOWERS LOCATED IN LIMESTONE AND FALLS COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 45 MILES AN HOUR. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. 08
Special weather statement, May 16, 12:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
TXZ021-022-023-025-026-027-161930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1250 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990 AT 1245 PM CDT...WEATHER RADARS INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN CAMPBELL AND LONE OAK IN EASTERN HUNT COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. A BAND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR TEXARKANA SOUTHWEST TO N5EAR TYLER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 46 min |
| May 16, 8:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 44 min |
| May 16, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt | 64 min |
| May 16, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin, Red River, Titus | 65 min |
| May 16, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Morris | 41 min |
| May 16, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Grayson | 46 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.