Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 18, 1998, 6:54 PM CST for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 18, 1998, 6:54 PM CST (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 1998, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnet County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 7:31 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Burnet, 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 00:00Z, 0.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
405 WUUS1 KSAT 190055 RRA SVRSAT TXC053-190200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 654 PM CST WED FEB 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BURNET COUNTY AT 653 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BLUFFTON IN LLANO COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO BURNET COUNTY NEAR LAKE BUCHANAN. LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN LLANO COUNTY. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...FLOODING SMALL STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
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 18, 6:00 PM CST, 54 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-191200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 PM CST WED FEB 18 1998 AN UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING..MAINLY OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN LARGE HAIL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD AVERAGE 1/2 INCH OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS THIS EVENING WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS NEAR 2 INCHES IN SOME OF THE HEAVIER STORMS. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED ON THURSDAY. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...FROM MIDLAND...LBBSPSMAF FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM SAN ANGELO...LBBSPSSJT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FROM FORT WORTH...FTWSPSFTW FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON...SATSPSHOU FOR COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS...FROM CORPUS CHRISTI...SATSPSCRP. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF THE ZONE FORECASTS...SHORT TERM FORECASTS...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 CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HOME PAGE OF THE INTERNET WORLD WIDE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/EWX OR TUNE TO THE CLOSEST NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION.
Special weather statement, Feb 18, 6:00 PM CST, 54 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-191200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 PM CST WED FEB 18 1998 AN UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING..MAINLY OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN LARGE HAIL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD AVERAGE 1/2 INCH OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS THIS EVENING WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS NEAR 2 INCHES IN SOME OF THE HEAVIER STORMS. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED ON THURSDAY. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...FROM MIDLAND...LBBSPSMAF FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM SAN ANGELO...LBBSPSSJT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FROM FORT WORTH...FTWSPSFTW FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON...SATSPSHOU FOR COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS...FROM CORPUS CHRISTI...SATSPSCRP. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF THE ZONE FORECASTS...SHORT TERM FORECASTS...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 CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HOME PAGE OF THE INTERNET WORLD WIDE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/EWX OR TUNE TO THE CLOSEST NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 6:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 42 min |
| Feb 18, 6:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Wilson | 41 min |
| Feb 18, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 58 min |
| Feb 18, 6:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 46 min |
| Feb 18, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Karnes | 62 min |
| Feb 18, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 56 min |
| Feb 18, 7:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 57 min |
| Feb 18, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales | 68 min |
| Feb 18, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 65 min |
| Feb 18, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 62 min |
| Feb 18, 8:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 57 min |
| Feb 18, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 63 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.