Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 130, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1998, 8:27 AM CDT for 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, 8:27 AM CDT (13:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1998, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 261328 FFWSAT TXC465-261630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 827 AM CDT WED AUG 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... VAL VERDE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1130 AM CDT * SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF VAL VERDE COUNTY AND ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE MORNING. OVER THE PAST THREE HOURS RADAR ESTIMATES THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN FROM LAKE AMISTAD NORTHWARD ALONG THE DEVILS RIVER TO JUNO. LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND LOWLYING AREAS WILL REMAIN FLOODED OVER MUCH OF THE COUNTY THROUGHOUT THE MORNING...AND POSSIBLY INTO THE AFTERNOON IF RAIN CONTINUES. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. PEOPLE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD WATCH FOR HEAVY RAINS...RISING WATER...AND FLOODED AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY AND SURROUNDING AREAS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. * IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERING THE ROAD.
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, 3 hours 12 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, 5:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, 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.