Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 1998, 3:52 AM CST for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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
- Feb 10, 1998, 3:52 AM CST (09:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1998, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kerr County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 4:05 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Kerrville, 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Feb 10, 2:37 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ184-186-185-183-101030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 237 AM CST TUE FEB 10 1998 AT 235 AM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM NORTH OF DEL RIO EAST INTO EDWARDS COUNTY...PARTS OF REAL COUNTY AND WESTERN KERR COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN ROCKSPRINGS AND DEL RIO IN THE PAST 15 MINUTES. BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN...SOME HAIL AND GUSTY WIND COULD ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF VAL VERDE... EDWARDS...REAL AND WESTERN KERR COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. &
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 2:37 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ184-186-185-183-101030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 237 AM CST TUE FEB 10 1998 AT 235 AM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM NORTH OF DEL RIO EAST INTO EDWARDS COUNTY...PARTS OF REAL COUNTY AND WESTERN KERR COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN ROCKSPRINGS AND DEL RIO IN THE PAST 15 MINUTES. BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN...SOME HAIL AND GUSTY WIND COULD ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF VAL VERDE... EDWARDS...REAL AND WESTERN KERR COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 3:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 62 min |
| Feb 10, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 44 min |
| Feb 10, 3:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 4:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 33 min |
| Feb 10, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 59 min |
| Feb 10, 5:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 62 min |
| Feb 10, 5:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 51 min |
| Feb 10, 5:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 6:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 59 min |
| Feb 10, 7:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 7:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 75 min |
| Feb 10, 8:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 8:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Wilson | 46 min |
| Feb 10, 9:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 58 min |
| Feb 10, 9:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 9:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 9:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 41 min |
| Feb 10, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.