Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1998, 5:57 AM CDT for Lavaca 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 22, 1998, 5:57 AM CDT (10:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1998, 8:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lavaca County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 22, 5:45 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-230000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 545 AM CDT SAT AUG 22 1998 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY... TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY IS NEAR ARANSAS...TEXAS MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 11 MPH. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY WILL DEVELOP AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO 10 INCHES POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. RESIDENTS OF SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR CURRENT FORECASTS AND TROPICAL STORM AND SEVERE WEATHER ADVISORIES ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IN MIAMI AND BY SOUTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES UNTIL THE THREAT FROM TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY SUBSIDES. 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 LOCAL INFORMATION FOR THE TEXAS COAST IS AVAILABLE VIA INTERNET HOMEPAGES FROM SOUTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES. THESE ADDRESSES CAN BE OBTAINED FROM WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV WHICH IS THE HOMEPAGE ADDRESS FOR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTHERN REGION.
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 5:45 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-230000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 545 AM CDT SAT AUG 22 1998 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY... TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY IS NEAR ARANSAS...TEXAS MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 11 MPH. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY WILL DEVELOP AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO 10 INCHES POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. RESIDENTS OF SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR CURRENT FORECASTS AND TROPICAL STORM AND SEVERE WEATHER ADVISORIES ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IN MIAMI AND BY SOUTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES UNTIL THE THREAT FROM TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY SUBSIDES. 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 LOCAL INFORMATION FOR THE TEXAS COAST IS AVAILABLE VIA INTERNET HOMEPAGES FROM SOUTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES. THESE ADDRESSES CAN BE OBTAINED FROM WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV WHICH IS THE HOMEPAGE ADDRESS FOR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTHERN REGION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 4:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 4:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 5:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 6:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays | 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.