Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1998, 5:40 AM CDT for Edwards County, Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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 26, 1998, 5:40 AM CDT (10:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1998, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 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, 10.7 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
- 3393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 261035 FFWSAT TXC137-271-465-261330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 540 AM CDT WED AUG 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... VAL VERDE COUNTY...WESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY...AND WESTERN KINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * FLASH FLOODING EXPECTED - IN AND AROUND DEL RIO IN VAL VERDE COUNTY...BETWEEN DEL RIO AND BRACKETTVILLE IN KINNEY COUNTY...FROM PANDALE TO COMSTOCK ALONG STATE ROAD 1024...ALONG AND OVER STATE ROAD 163 BETWEEN CONSTOCK AND JUNO...ALONG STATE ROAD 277 BETWEEN DEL RIO AND LOMA ALTA...AND OVER ALL LOW WATER CROSSINGS RELATED TO THE PECOS RIVER...THE DEVILS RIVER...AND THE DRY DEVILS RIVER. * DOPPLER RADARS INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN EDWARDS...NORTHWESTERN KINNEY...AND VAL VERDE COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINS ARE FALLING OVER THE RIVER BASINS OF THE PECOS AND DEVILS RIVERS IN VAL VERDE AND THE DRY DEVILS RIVER IN WESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE INCH AN HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED...ADDED TO THE FLOODED CONDITIONS NOW OCCURRING. ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS EXPECTED... ALONG THE RIVERS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND LOW LYING AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERING THE ROAD. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS... AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AS FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. AS FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Aug 26, 5:15 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-270000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 515 AM CDT WED AUG 26 1998 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY WESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND TEXAS HILL COUNTRY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND JUST EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE TODAY. ADDITIONAL LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AVERAGING BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES COULD CAUSE MORE FLOODING. ELSEWHERE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TODAY AND THIS EVENING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE NEAR A QUARTER OF AN INCH OR LESS WITH HIGHER TOTALS NEAR HALF AN INCH OR MORE POSSIBLE. RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR NEARLY ALL MAJOR RIVERS AND CREEKS ALONG AND EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE...INCLUDING THE RIO GRANDE... DEVILS...PECOS...WEST NUECES...NUECES...DRY FRIO...FRIO AND SABINAL RIVERS...THEIR WATERSHEDS AND BASINS...AND ALL CREEKS LEADING INTO THEM. LOW-WATER CROSSINGS...RURAL ROADS AND HIGHWAYS MAY ALSO BE FLOODED OR CLOSED DUE TO HIGH FLOOD WATERS. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF THE ZONE FORECASTS...SHORT TERM FORECAST...WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ITSELF WILL BE UPDATED ONLY IF UNEXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF EXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HOME PAGE OF THE INTERNET WORLD WIDE WEB AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/EWX OR TUNE TO THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OPERATING ON A FREQUENCY BETWEEN 162.400 MHZ AND 162.550 MHZ. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: SOUTHWEST TEXAS FROM MIDLAND LBBSPSMAF...WWUS35 KMAF CONCHO VALLEY FROM SAN ANGELO LBBSPSSJT...WWUS35 KSJT NORTH TEXAS FROM FORT WORTH FTWSPSFTW...WWUS35 KFTW SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON SATSPSHOU...WWUS35 KHOU COASTAL BEND/ FROM CORPUS CHRISTI SATSPSCRP...WWUS35 KCRP RIO GRANDE PLAINS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 10:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 119 min |
| Aug 26, 3:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.