Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1998, 3:56 AM CDT for Dimmit County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
- Apr 27, 1998, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1998, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dimmit County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 530 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
736 WUUS1 KSAT 270858 RRA SVRSAT TXC127-270930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 356 AM CDT MON APR 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DIMMIT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 355 AM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED FROM CARRIZO SPRINGS TO ASHERTON AND BRUNDAGE... BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Apr 27, 12:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
1159 PM CST SUN APR 26 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0714 PM BLUFFTON TX .88 INCH HAIL
04/26/98 LLANO REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0735 PM LAKE BUCHANAN TX 60+ MPH TSTM GUST
04/26/98 BURNET SUSTAINED WIND REPORTED BY
LCRA.
0840 PM JOHNSON CITY TX 60+ MPH TSTM GUST
04/26/98 BLANCO REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0840 PM JOHNSON CITY TX .75 INCH HAIL
04/26/98 BLANCO REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0910 PM BEE CAVE TX TORNADO
04/26/98 TRAVIS PUBLIC REPORT.
0920 PM BRIARCLIFF TX TORNADO
04/26/98 TRAVIS z PUBLIC REPORT.Local storm report, Apr 27, 12:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
1159 PM CST SUN APR 26 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0714 PM BLUFFTON TX .88 INCH HAIL
04/26/98 LLANO REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0735 PM LAKE BUCHANAN TX 60+ MPH TSTM GUST
04/26/98 BURNET SUSTAINED WIND REPORTED BY
LCRA.
0840 PM JOHNSON CITY TX 60+ MPH TSTM GUST
04/26/98 BLANCO REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0840 PM JOHNSON CITY TX .75 INCH HAIL
04/26/98 BLANCO REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0910 PM BEE CAVE TX TORNADO
04/26/98 TRAVIS PUBLIC REPORT.
0920 PM BRIARCLIFF TX TORNADO
04/26/98 TRAVIS PUBLIC REPORT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 90 min |
| Apr 26, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis | 90 min |
| Apr 26, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 5:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lee | 63 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.