Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1998, 5:54 PM CST for Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. 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 21, 1998, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1998, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Llano County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
583 WUUS1 KSAT 212355 RRA SVRSAT TXC299-220100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 554 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...LLANO COUNTY AT 555 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CASTELL IN WESTERN LLANO COUNTY AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST ALONG HWY 29 AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...FLOODING SMALL STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 21, 3:26 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
326 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM LEXINGTON TX TORNADO
01/21/98 LEE FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY
SHERIFF.
0230 PM PAIGE TX TORNADO
01/21/98 BASTROP FUNNEL CLOUD ON COUNTY
LINE. REPORTED BY
SHERIFF.
0230 PM LEXINGTON TX .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98 LEE REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0245 PM PAIGE TX TORNADO
01/21/98 BASTROP FUNNEL CLOUD NORTH OF
PAIGE OVER LEE COUNTY.
0256 PM DIME BOX TX TORNADO
01/21/98 LEE TORNADO ON GROUND BETWEEN
DIME BOX AND HWY 77.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0309 PM DIME BOX TX TORNADO
01/21/98 LEE TORNADO ON GROUND NEAR
DIME BOX. REPORTED BY
CONSTABLE.Local storm report, Jan 21, 3:26 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
326 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM LEXINGTON TX TORNADO
01/21/98 LEE FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY
SHERIFF.
0230 PM PAIGE TX TORNADO
01/21/98 BASTROP FUNNEL CLOUD ON COUNTY
LINE. REPORTED BY
SHERIFF.
0230 PM LEXINGTON TX .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/98 LEE REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0245 PM PAIGE TX TORNADO
01/21/98 BASTROP FUNNEL CLOUD NORTH OF
PAIGE OVER LEE COUNTY.
0256 PM DIME BOX TX TORNADO
01/21/98 LEE TORNADO ON GROUND BETWEEN
DIME BOX AND HWY 77.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0309 PM DIME BOX TX TORNADO
01/21/98 LEE TORNADO ON GROUND NEAR
DIME BOX. REPORTED BY
CONSTABLE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 58 min |
| Jan 21, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lee | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm 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.