Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 11, 1998, 5:12 PM CST for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
- Jan 11, 1998, 5:12 PM CST (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 1998, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 5:20 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Giddings, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 533 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
096
WFUS1 KSAT 112317 RRA
TORSAT
TXC287-120015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
512 PM CST SUN JAN 11 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
...LEE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF GIDDINGS AND SURROUNDING
AREAS...
AT 510 PM CST...NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS WERE RECEIVED
BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO IN AND
AROUND THE GIDDINGS COMMUNITY. SOME DAMAGE WAS REPORTED. REPORTS
CAME FROM BOTH THE POLICE AND SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN GIDDINGS.
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.
IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PLACE...CALL YOUR REPORT TO
THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 59 min |
| Jan 11, 4:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 66 min |
| Jan 11, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 57 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.