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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 1998, 8:26 PM CST for Medina County, Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Feb 25, 1998, 8:26 PM CST (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 1998, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Medina County, TX, Uvalde County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Natalia, TX | |
| Feb 25, 9:07 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Devine, 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1064 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
659 WFUS1 KSAT 260227 RRA TORSAT TXC325-463-260330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 826 PM CST WED FEB 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN MEDINA COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN UVALDE COUNTY AT 825 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF UTOPIA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL TRACK EASTWARD INTO NORTHERN MEDINA COUNTY NORTH OF FM 1796. TORNADOES WHICH OCCUR AFTER DARK ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. GET TO A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS...BUT GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND CARS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 57 min |
| Feb 25, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 61 min |
| Feb 25, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 62 min |
| Feb 25, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 68 min |
| Feb 25, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 64 min |
| Feb 25, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 64 min |
| Feb 25, 8:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 67 min |
| Feb 25, 8:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 67 min |
| Feb 25, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 66 min |
| Feb 25, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet | 66 min |
| Feb 25, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 66 min |
| Feb 25, 8:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 57 min |
| Feb 25, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 38 min |
| Feb 25, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 59 min |
| Feb 25, 9:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 51 min |
| Feb 25, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 64 min |
| Feb 25, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 64 min |
| Feb 25, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 57 min |
| Feb 25, 10:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 57 min |
| Feb 25, 10:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 69 min |
| Feb 25, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 52 min |
| Feb 25, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 65 min |
| Feb 25, 11:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 29 min |
| Feb 25, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 51 min |
| Feb 26, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 64 min |
| Feb 26, 12:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays | 57 min |
| Feb 26, 12:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 64 min |
| Feb 26, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 1:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 1:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 2:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson | 69 min |
| Feb 26, 2:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 64 min |
| Feb 26, 2:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 4 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 61 min |
| Feb 26, 2:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 56 min |
| Feb 26, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.