Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 1998, 12:37 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
- Oct 17, 1998, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1998, 1:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 2241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
644 WFUS1 KSAT 171738 RRA TORSAT TXC055-171840- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1237 PM CDT SAT OCT 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALDWELL COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 140 PM CDT * AT 12:30 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWEEN LOCKHART AND DALE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LYTTON SPRINGS AT 12:50 PM CDT DALE AT 12:50 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADIC WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SAFETY IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. BE MINDFUL OF RISING WATERS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 6:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Blanco, Comal | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 8:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio, Medina | 2 hr |
| Oct 17, 8:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Hays | 4 hr |
| Oct 17, 8:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Oct 17, 10:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Guadalupe | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 12:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 12:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 60 min |
| Oct 17, 4:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Guadalupe | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 4:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 5:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 5 hr |
| Oct 17, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Hays, Travis | 5 hr |
| Oct 17, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 5 hr |
| Oct 17, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall | 5 hr |
Nearby
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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.