Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 83, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 1990, 9:50 PM CDT for Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1990, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 10:10 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Hopkins, 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 00:00Z, 2.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 080252 TORFTW TXC223-080330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 950 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...HOPKINS COUNTY AT 952 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ON THE WEST SIDE OF SULPHUR SPRINGS. THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. RESIDENTS IN SULPHUR SPRINGS SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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 9AN 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, Oct 7, 4:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 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, 4 hours 27 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.
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 9:47 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
TXZ021>032-080400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 945 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE REMAINING PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS EXPIRED AT 900 PM... AT 940 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...WERE OCCURRING OVER PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS EXTENDING INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS IN AN AREA GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM DALLAS TO LAKE OF THE PINES TO TEXARKANA. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM ABILENE TO BRECKENRIDGE TO DENTON AND BETWEEN GREENVILLE...SHERMAN AND DENTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS THAT REMAIN OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM PARIS SOUTHWARD TO SULPHUR SPRINGS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL. SOME FLOODING OF FLOOD PRONE AND LOW-LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE SO MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO DRIVE INTO AREAS WERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. REMEMBER ...IF THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED ...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAF+ETY IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR T. V. FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS SHOULD CONDITIONS WARRANT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wood | 61 min |
| Oct 7, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 59 min |
| Oct 7, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 63 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.