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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 1998, 9:09 PM CST for Atascosa County, Bexar County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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, 9:09 PM CST (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 1998, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bexar County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 9:20 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Lytle, TX | |
| Feb 25, 9:23 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Somerset, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1002 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
954 WFUS1 KSAT 260310 RRA TORSAT TXC013-029-260400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 909 PM CST WED FEB 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHWESTERN ATASCOSA COUNTY...BEXAR COUNTY AT 905 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTHEASTERN MEDINA COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IN NORTHEASTERN ATASCOSA COUNTY LYTLE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. IN BEXAR COUNTY VON ORMY AND SOMERSET ARE IN THE PATHC OF THIS STORM. RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADO WAS IN SOUTHEASTERN MEDINA COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD SOUTHWESTERN BEXAR AND NORTHWESTERN ATASCOSA COUNTIES. 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. 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, 8:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 64 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, 9:11 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.