Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 1998, 1:57 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 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 KSAT 241858 FFWSAT TXC137-271-465-242300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 157 PM CDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... VAL VERDE COUNTY EDWARDS COUNTY AND KINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING EXPECTED- IN DEL RIO NORTHWARD TO LOMA ALTA ACROSS MOST OF EDWARDS COUNTY ACROSS MOST OF KINNEY COUNTY * HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS EASTERN VAL VERDE...MOST OF EDWARDS... AND MOST OF KINNEY COUNTIES. WIDESPREAD FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES WITH MOST ROADS CLOSED AND MOST LOW LYING AREAS FLOODED. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...STAY ON HIGHER GROUND AND CONTINUED TO BE PREPARED TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD RISING WATER OR FLOODING BE OBSERVED. MOTORISTS MUST NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERING THE ROAD. FLASH FLOZOD WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR REAL COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM AND FOR UVALDE COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. &
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, 12:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 8 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, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
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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.