Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 150, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 1998, 8:47 AM CDT for Gonzales County, Guadalupe 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
- Sep 14, 1998, 8:47 AM CDT (13:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1998, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 141349 FFWSAT TXC177-187-141645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 847 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GUADALUPE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WESTERN GONZALES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 AM CDT * FLASH FLOODING EXPECTED- ALONG AND EAST OF STATE HIGHWAY 123 SOUTH OF SEGUIN TO STATE HIGHWAY 80 NEAR LEESVILLE * DOPPLER ESTIMATED RAINFALL NEAR 1 INCH AN HOUR WITH THE DRIFTING SHOWERS...AN EXPECTED TOTAL OF OVER 3 INCHES IN THREE HOURS. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERING THE ROAD. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT SOME SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL FLOOD AND BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. RESIDENTS ADJACENT TO GERONIMO CREEK BELOW HIGHWAY 90A IN SEGUIN SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND NEWS REPORTS FOR4 DEVELOPING HEAVY RAIN AND FLOOD STATEMENTS.
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, Sep 14, 6:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-142230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1998 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OR THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY TODAY OR TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS AVERAGING NEAR A QUARTER OF AN INCH WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES. 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. TIMELY DELIVERY OF DATA AND PRODUCTS FROM THIS SERVER THROUGH THE INTERNET IS NOT GUARANTEED... UNLIKE DATA AND PRODUCTS DELIVERED FROM OFFICIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOURCES. THE OFFICIAL SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DATA AND PRODUCTS IS THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO...NOAA WEATHER WIRE...FAMILY OF SERVICES AND EMWIN. THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...NOAA WEATHER RADIO... OPERATES 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
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 6:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-142230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1998 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OR THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY TODAY OR TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS AVERAGING NEAR A QUARTER OF AN INCH WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES. 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. TIMELY DELIVERY OF DATA AND PRODUCTS FROM THIS SERVER THROUGH THE INTERNET IS NOT GUARANTEED... UNLIKE DATA AND PRODUCTS DELIVERED FROM OFFICIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOURCES. THE OFFICIAL SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DATA AND PRODUCTS IS THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO...NOAA WEATHER WIRE...FAMILY OF SERVICES AND EMWIN. THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...NOAA WEATHER RADIO... OPERATES 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
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.