Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 5, 1998, 3:39 PM CST for Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. 3 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
- Feb 5, 1998, 3:39 PM CST (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 1998, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bexar County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 3:52 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | San Antonio, TX | |
| Feb 5, 4:25 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | San Antonio, TX | |
| Feb 5, 4:35 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | San Antonio, 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
129 WUUS1 KSAT 052141 RRA SVRSAT TXC029-052245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 339 PM CST THU FEB 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY AT 340 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL NORTH OF SAN ANTONIO NEAR UNIVERSAL CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL EFFECT THOSE ALONG THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 40 min |
| Feb 5, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 62 min |
| Feb 5, 5:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.