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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 7, 1998Llano County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 4:04 PM CST for Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 7, 1998, 4:04 PM CST (22:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1998, 5:00 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Llano County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 7, 4:15 PM CSTHail 1.5Castell, TX
Mar 7, 4:40 PM CSTHail 1.75Llano, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 254 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-414 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAT 072204 RRA
SVRSAT
TXC299-072300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
404 PM CST SAT MAR 7 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...LLANO COUNTY
 
AT 4 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ABOUT 10 MILES WEST
OF LLANO. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LLANO IS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 7, 4:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie62 min
Mar 7, 4:39 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXLlano51 min
Mar 7, 4:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet69 min
Mar 7, 5:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco44 min
Mar 7, 5:08 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXBlanco52 min
Mar 7, 5:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays, Travis40 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.