Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1998, 4:47 PM CDT for Fayette County, Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 27, 1998, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1998, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, TX, Lee County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 5:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | La Grange, 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 1475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
706 WUUS1 KSAT 272148 RRA SVRSAT TXC149-287-272250- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 447 PM CDT MON APR 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 550 PM CDT * AT AT 445 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED 5 MILES WEST OF WEST POINT AND 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINCOLN... BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR- WEST POINT 455 PM CDT WINCHESTER 500 PM CDT WARDA 505 PM CDT LINCOLN 455 PM CDT DIME BOX 505 PM CDT 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.
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, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 5:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.