Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1998, 7:25 PM CDT for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 30, 1998, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bandera County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 310026 SVRSAT TXC019-310130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 725 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BANDERA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 722 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BETWEEN TARPLEY AND MEDINA...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME CITIES AND LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... FARM ROAD 470 WEST OF TARPLEY AT 745 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEA<VY 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
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 5:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-311100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 530 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 1998 THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. INSTABILITY ALOFT AND A COUPLE OF SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTERS FOCUSING MOIST..UNSTABLE GULF AIR INTO THEM WILL HELP PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. THE ACTIVITY WILL WEAKEN TO BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AFTER DARK. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE FROM HAIL AND HIGH WINDS..POSSIBLY IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MONDAY THROUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY WITH A SIMILAR SCENARIO EXPECTED. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF THE ZONE FORECAST...SHORT TERM FORECAST...WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ITSELF WILL BE UPDATED ONLY IF UNEXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF EXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HOME PAGE OF THE INTERNET WORLD WIDE WEB AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/EWX OR TUNE TO THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OPERATING ON A FREQUENCY BETWEEN 162.400 MHZ AND 162.550 MHZ. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: SOUTHWEST TEXAS FROM MIDLAND LBBSPSMAF...WWUS35 KMAF CONCHO VALLEY FROM SAN ANGELO LBBSPSSJT...WWUS35 KSJT NORTH TEXAS FROM FORT WORTH FTWSPSFTW...WWUS35 KFTW SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON SATSPSHOU...WWUS35 KHOU COASTAL BEND/ FROM CORPUS CHRISTI SATSPSCRP...WWUS35 KCRP RIO GRANDE PLAINS
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 5:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-311100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 530 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 1998 THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. INSTABILITY ALOFT AND A COUPLE OF SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTERS FOCUSING MOIST..UNSTABLE GULF AIR INTO THEM WILL HELP PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. THE ACTIVITY WILL WEAKEN TO BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AFTER DARK. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE FROM HAIL AND HIGH WINDS..POSSIBLY IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MONDAY THROUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY WITH A SIMILAR SCENARIO EXPECTED. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF THE ZONE FORECAST...SHORT TERM FORECAST...WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ITSELF WILL BE UPDATED ONLY IF UNEXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF EXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HOME PAGE OF THE INTERNET WORLD WIDE WEB AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/EWX OR TUNE TO THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OPERATING ON A FREQUENCY BETWEEN 162.400 MHZ AND 162.550 MHZ. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: SOUTHWEST TEXAS FROM MIDLAND LBBSPSMAF...WWUS35 KMAF CONCHO VALLEY FROM SAN ANGELO LBBSPSSJT...WWUS35 KSJT NORTH TEXAS FROM FORT WORTH FTWSPSFTW...WWUS35 KFTW SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON SATSPSHOU...WWUS35 KHOU COASTAL BEND/ FROM CORPUS CHRISTI SATSPSCRP...WWUS35 KCRP RIO GRANDE PLAINS
Local storm report, Aug 30, 7:10 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
710 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0642 PM AUSTIN TX WIND
08/30/98 TRAVIS 50 KT (58 MPH) WIND
GUST AT BERGSTROM
AIR FORCE BASELocal storm report, Aug 30, 7:10 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
710 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0642 PM AUSTIN TX WIND
08/30/98 TRAVIS 50 KT (58 MPH) WIND
GUST AT BERGSTROM
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTLocal storm report, Aug 30, 7:10 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
710 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0642 PM AUSTIN TX WIND
08/30/98 TRAVIS 50 KT (58 MPH) WIND
GUST AT BERGSTROM
AIR FORCE BASELocal storm report, Aug 30, 7:10 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
710 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0642 PM AUSTIN TX WIND
08/30/98 TRAVIS 50 KT (58 MPH) WIND
GUST AT BERGSTROM
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 64 min |
| Aug 30, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 61 min |
| Aug 30, 8:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 60 min |
| Aug 31, 3:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 80 min |
| Aug 31, 4:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 2 hr |
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.