Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1998, 4:19 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 14, 1998, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1998, 5:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bastrop County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Paige, TX | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power poles and blocked roads. |
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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 1545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
043 WUUS1 KSAT 142120 RRA SVRSAT TXC021-142220- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 419 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BASTROP COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 520 PM CDT * AT AT 415 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BETWEEN MCDADE AND PAIGE ALONG HWY 290... BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR... MOVING SOUTH 10 MPH. * SOME CITIES AND LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PAIGE LAKE BASTROP BASTROP 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, Jul 14, 3:26 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
326 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0245 PM BERTRAM TX 1 INCH HAIL
07/14/98 BURNET REPORTED BY AUSTIN MEDIA.Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:26 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
326 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0245 PM BERTRAM TX 1 INCH HAIL
07/14/98 BURNET REPORTED BY AUSTIN MEDIA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 64 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.