Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 6, 1998, 12:41 PM CST for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Jan 6, 1998, 12:41 PM CST (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1998, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 061842 FFWSAT TXC029-062045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1241 PM CST TUE JAN 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BEXAR COUNTY AT 12:40 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH AND ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES PER HOUR. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN AND NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. FLOOD PRONE URBAN AREAS FILL WITH WATER QUICKLY. CLOGGED STORM DRAINS MAY CAUSE OTHER AREAS TO FLOOD. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS AND STAY AWAY FROM STORM DRAINS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT TO ESCAPE RISING WATER DURING THREATENING RAINS.
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
Local storm report, Jan 6, 11:13 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
1113 AM CST TUE JAN 06 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1010 AM COUPLAND TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/06/98 WILLIAMSONLocal storm report, Jan 6, 11:13 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
1113 AM CST TUE JAN 06 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1010 AM COUPLAND TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/06/98 WILLIAMSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 50 min |
| Jan 6, 6:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr | 5 hr |
| Jan 6, 8:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 4 hr |
| Jan 6, 8:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 9:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 68 min |
| Jan 6, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 43 min |
| Jan 6, 11:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 69 min |
| Jan 6, 11:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 69 min |
| Jan 6, 12:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| Jan 6, 12:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 2 hr |
| Jan 6, 1:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 59 min |
| Jan 6, 2:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 2 hr |
| Jan 6, 2:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 118 min |
| Jan 6, 4:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.