Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1998, 5:26 PM CST for Real County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 30, 1998, 5:26 PM CST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1998, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Real County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
978 WUUS1 KSAT 302327 RRA SVRSAT TXC385-310030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 526 PM CST MON MAR 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...REAL COUNTY AT 525 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED 10 MILES WEST OF LEAKEY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PLACE...CALL YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 4:59 PM CST, 27 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-311200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 459 PM CST MON MAR 30 1998 HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY...GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM EAGLE PASS TO JUNCTION AND SAN SABA. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SWEEP ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY THIS EVENING. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A PACIFIC COLD FRONT AND SHOULD BE SOUTH AND EAST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY BY MIDNIGHT. RAINFALL WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY WITH AMOUNTS AVERAGING BETWEEN 1/4 AND 1/2 INCH WITH ISOLATED 1 INCH TOTALS POSSIBLE. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...FROM MIDLAND...LBBSPSMAF FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM SAN ANGELO...LBBSPSSJT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FROM FORT WORTH...FTWSPSFTW FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON...SATSPSHOU FOR COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS...FROM CORPUS CHRISTI...SATSPSCRP. 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 CLOSEST NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION OPERATING ON A FREQUENCY BETWEEN 162.400 MHz AND 162.550 MHz.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 4:59 PM CST, 27 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-311200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 459 PM CST MON MAR 30 1998 HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY...GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM EAGLE PASS TO JUNCTION AND SAN SABA. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SWEEP ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY THIS EVENING. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A PACIFIC COLD FRONT AND SHOULD BE SOUTH AND EAST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY BY MIDNIGHT. RAINFALL WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY WITH AMOUNTS AVERAGING BETWEEN 1/4 AND 1/2 INCH WITH ISOLATED 1 INCH TOTALS POSSIBLE. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...FROM MIDLAND...LBBSPSMAF FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM SAN ANGELO...LBBSPSSJT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FROM FORT WORTH...FTWSPSFTW FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON...SATSPSHOU FOR COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS...FROM CORPUS CHRISTI...SATSPSCRP. 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 CLOSEST NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION OPERATING ON A FREQUENCY BETWEEN 162.400 MHz AND 162.550 MHz.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.