Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1998, 4:47 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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
- Aug 29, 1998, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1998, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnet County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Granite Mtn, TX | |
| Aug 29, 4:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Granite Mtn, 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
069 WUUS1 KSAT 292148 RRA SVRSAT TXC053-292230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 447 PM CDT SAT AUG 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BURNET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 445 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURNET... BY AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR . MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 13 MPH. REPORTS OF DAMAGE HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT. * SOME CITIES AND LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... BURNET AT 520 PM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 94 min |
| Aug 29, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 61 min |
| Aug 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 59 min |
| Aug 29, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis | 61 min |
| Aug 29, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis | 59 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.