Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 1:32 AM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 8, 1998, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 2:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Menard County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1085 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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 Apr 7, 9:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 9:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 909 PM CDT TUE APR 7 1998 COORDINATED BRIEFLY WITH FTW REGARDING WIND DIRECTION AND THE ISOLATED SHOWERS DEVELOPING OVER MCCULLOCH/SAN SABA COUNTIES ALONG A STALLED OUT DRYLINE. BELIEVE THAT LOW LEVEL WINDS IN ADVANCE OF THE 850 MB TROUGH COULD SUPPORT SOME TSRA OVER THIS AREA SO RECOMMEND SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THIS AREA AS WELL AS KIMBLE AND MASON COUNTIES. OTHERWISE WILL ONLY MAKE COSMETIC CHANGES TO WINDS WITH THE REMAINDER OF FORECASTS ON TRACK. 15
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 8, 1:25 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TEXAS
125 AM CDT WED APR 08 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0116 AM SONORA TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SUTTONLocal storm report, Apr 8, 1:25 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TEXAS
125 AM CDT WED APR 08 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0116 AM SONORA TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SUTTONThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman, McCulloch | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 78 min |
| Apr 8, 1:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble | 59 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.