Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 4:51 PM CST for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 69 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
- Mar 7, 1998, 4:51 PM CST (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1998, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnet County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
765 WUUS1 KSAT 072250 RRA SVRSAT TXC053-080000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 451 PM CST SAT MAR 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BURNET COUNTY RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY 29 NEAR LAKE BUCHANAN MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. PEOPLE NEAR LAKE BUCHANAN AND IN THE TOWN OF BURNET SHOULD MOVE INDOORS NOW. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES... SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.
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, Mar 7, 4:27 PM CST, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
427 PM CST SAT MAR 07 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM LLANO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/07/98 LLANO 8 TO 9 MILES WEWT OF
LLANO NEAR HWY 152The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 56 min |
| Mar 7, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Llano | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 5:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco | 52 min |
| Mar 7, 5:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 40 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.