Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 2:51 PM CST for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 74 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
- Mar 7, 1998, 2:51 PM CST (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1998, 4:05 PM CST
- In force
- 74 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kimble County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 7, 1:54 PM CST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 1:54 PM CST, 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 154 PM CST SAT MAR 7 1998 WITH SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING...WILL HAVE LITTLE TO ADD TO MODEL FORECASTS THIS ROUND. WITH MODELS SHOWING GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE PERIODS...WILL NOT DEVIATE MUCH FROM GUIDANCES WITH A SLIGHT EMPHASIS ON THE COOLER AVIATION GUIDANCE. EXPECT DRIZZLE AND/OR FLURRIES TO BE POSSIBLE TOWARD MORNING OVER THE EASTERN BIG COUNTRY. EXPECT WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA TOWARD MORNING AND CONTINUING INTO THE 2ND PERIOD OVER THE FTW ZONES WITH LAKE CAUTION LEVELS ELSEWHERE. ABI 031/046 31 SJT 035/051 -0 JCT 036/055 00 15
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 9:48 AM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
TXZ098-099-113-114-127-128-071605- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 948 AM CST SAT MAR 7 1998 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE EASTERN BIG COUNTRY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 945 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED TO THE EAST OF THE BIG COUNTRY...ENDING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. REDEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS NOT LIKELY IN THE EASTERN BIG COUNTRY THIS MORNING...SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 10
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 9:48 AM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
TXZ098-099-113-114-127-128-071605- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 948 AM CST SAT MAR 7 1998 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE EASTERN BIG COUNTRY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 945 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED TO THE EAST OF THE BIG COUNTRY...ENDING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. REDEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS NOT LIKELY IN THE EASTERN BIG COUNTRY THIS MORNING...SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 10
Local storm report, Mar 7, 12:45 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TEXAS
145 PM CDT SAT MAR 07 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0136 PM VANCOURT TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/07/98 TOM GREEN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTERLocal storm report, Mar 7, 1:45 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TEXAS
145 PM CDT SAT MAR 07 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0136 PM VANCOURT TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/07/98 TOM GREEN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTERSpecial weather statement, Mar 7, 2:33 PM CST, 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 9:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 94 min |
| Mar 6, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 93 min |
| Mar 7, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 2:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 3:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 8:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher, Tom Green | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 12:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 1:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 1:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 77 min |
| Mar 7, 2:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 58 min |
| Mar 7, 3:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, McCulloch | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.