Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 114, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 1998, 12:43 AM CDT for Edwards County, Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 1998, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 1207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 240544 FFWSAT TXC137-271-465-241330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1243 AM CDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... VAL VERDE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS KINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * FLASH FLOODING EXPECTED AROUND- VAL VERDE COUNTY INCLUDING DEL RIO WESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY WESTERN KINNEY COUNTY * A BAND OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST OF DEL RIO THROUGH THE CITY OF DEL RIO NORTH TO NEAR JUNO AND WEST TO PANDALE. RAINFALL RATES IN DEL RIO ARE 3 TO 5 INCHES PER HOUR WITH FLOODING OF ALL STREETS AND ROADWAYS REPORTED BY DEL RIO DPS UNITS. ROADS THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN PORTION OF DEL RIO ARE REPORTED UNDER WATER WITH AREAWIDE FLOODING ALSO REPORTED IN EDWARDS AND KINNEY COUNTIES. IN ADDITION TO THE DANGEROUS FLOODING OCCURRING...STRONG GUSTY DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS DANGEROUS SITUATION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. RAINS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT WHICH WILL CREANTE MORE DISASTEROUS FLOODING. * THIS IS A LIFE THREATNING SITUATION. PERSON PLANNING TO DRIVE TO THE WEST TEXAS AREA SHOULD NOT. PERSONS IN THE AREAS EFFECTED SHOULD SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 4 hr |
| Aug 24, 6:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 4 hr |
| Aug 24, 8:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 10:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 11:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 1:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 4 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 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.