Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1990, 5:05 PM CDT for Cass County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Apr 27, 1990, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cass 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 5:16 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cass, 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 272206 SVRSHV TXC067-272300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 505 PM CDT FRI APR 27 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...CASS COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LINDEN TEXAS MOVING EASTWARD NEAR 15 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST ARKAMSAS FROM NASHVILLE TO NEAR HOPE AND 20 MILES WEST OF TEXARKANA. TO THE WEST...SEVERE STORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND WILL SPMREAD EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS THIS EVENING. TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST TEXAS.
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, Apr 27, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-272100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 250 PM CDT THU APR 26 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS... AT 245 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SHREVEPORT INDICATED A DEVELOPING BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS 15 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM VANDERVOORT ARKANSAS SOUTHWESTWARD TO IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO PITTSBURG TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF GUSTY WINDS..LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SOUTH AND SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS EAST TEXAS. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY -EASTWARD ACROSS THE ARKLATEX THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT AND A FEW SEVERE STORMS CAN BE EXPECTED. A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT AFTER 315 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND ALL OF EAST TEXAS.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-272100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 250 PM CDT FRI APR 27 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS... AT 245 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SHREVEPORT INDICATED A DEVELOPING BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS 15 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM VANDERVOORT ARKANSAS SOUTHWESTWARD TO IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO PITTSBURG TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF GUSTY WINDS..LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SOUTH AND SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS EAST TEXAS. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THU;NDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE ARKLATEX THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT AND A FEW SEVERE STORMS CAN BE EXPECTED. A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT AFTER 315 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND ALL OF EAST TEXAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 59 min |
| Apr 27, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison | 67 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.