Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 1998, 6:04 PM CST for Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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
- Feb 18, 1998, 6:04 PM CST (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 1998, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
157 WFUS1 KSAT 190005 RRA TORSAT TXC493-190045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 604 PM CST WED FEB 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WILSON COUNTY AT 603 PM...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM NEAR POTH MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. KOSCIUSKO IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO THE CENTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING...COVER YOUR HEAD. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. DO NOT STAY IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING.
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, 6:17 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, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 66 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 |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.