Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 3:31 PM CDT for Blanco County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 5, 1998, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blanco County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 2397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
073 WUUS1 KSAT 052032 RRA SVRSAT TXC031-052120- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 331 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLANCO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 325 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED NEAR KENDALIA. .. BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MPH. * SOME CITIES AND LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... TWIN SISTERS 340 PM CDT NEAR GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT PASSED OVER SISTERDALE. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 5:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.