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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 1998, 1:15 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Oct 17, 1998, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1998, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Lee County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Elgin, TX | A very small and short-lived tornado struck briefly near Elgin. It destroyed a mobile home and knocked over several trees before lifting back into the parent thunderstorm. The only reported injury was to a baby in the mobile home. |
| Oct 17, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Elgin, TX | A second small, narrow and short-lived tornado was reported over thirty minutes after the first tornado. It also formed in the Elgin area and stayed on the ground about two minutes. It moved into a light residential area, destroying one home, then lifted u |
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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 276 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.
813 WFUS1 KSAT 171817 RRA TORSAT TXC021-287-171915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 115 PM CDT SAT OCT 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BASTROP IN TEXAS LEE IN TEXAS * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT AT 110 PM CDT AT TORNADO WAS INDICATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BASTROP... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BASTROP AT 120 PM CDT PAIGE AT 130 PM CDT LINCOLN AT 150 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT... DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. BEWARE THE THREAT OF RISING WATER. PASHOS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Oct 16, 7:25 PM CDT, 17 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 7:25 PM CDT, 17 hours 50 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 725 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 1998 EXPECT ISOLATED SHOWERS TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE CWA...MAINLY OVR THE COSATAL WATERS...OVERNIGHT IN RESPONSE TO INFLUX OF MSTR FROM THE GULF AND TROPICAL CONNECTION FROM MADELINE. CURRENT TEMP FCST FOR TNGT LOOKS GOOD BASED ON CURRENT LAPS DEW POINT TREND PAST FEW HOURS. ETA MODEL SOUNDINGS PROG LOW LVL CONDITIONS CLOSE TO DRY ADIABATIC OVERNIGHT OVR THE COASTAL BEND WHICH MAY KEEP WINDS UP OVERNIGHT ALG THE COAST...HWR CURRENT FCST OF WNDS LOOK REASONABLE ATTM. NO CHGS ATTM. ALTHOUGH MODELS PROG WEAK SHRTWVS ACRS THE CWA SAT...THE MAIN DYNAMIC INFLUENCE SAT WL LIKELY BE THE RRQ OF UPR JET STREAK PROGD BY ALL SOLNS TO MOV ACRS CNTRL TX. IN ADDITION...THE LLJ WL PERSIST SAT AND COMBINE WITH THE UPSTREAM SFC FNT...AND UPR DISTURBANCE... TO ENHANCE MSTR CONVERGENCE OVR CNTRL TX. THUS HEAVY RAIN IS PSBL OVR THE NRN CWA SAT AFTN/NGT. HVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE OVR THE WRN CWA AS THE AVN...AND TO A LESSOR EXTENT THE NGM...PROG AN INCREASE IN 850 THETA-E ACRS THE WRN CWA DRG THE DAY SAT. THE COMBINATION OF LOW LVL THETA-E RDGS AND MID LVL MSTR...SEEN ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY FM THE TROPICAL CONNECTION...IS CONDUSIVE TO HVY RAIN. THUS THE NRN/WRN CWA SHOULD BE MONITORED FOR PSBL FLASH FLOOD WATCH SAT. WND ADVISORY CRITERIA PSBL AGAIN SAT AS 850 MB 35 KT WNDS MIX DOWNWARD. 87
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, 12:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.