Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 8:36 PM CDT for Concho County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- May 8, 1998, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Concho County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersview, TX | Large water tank blown across a field |
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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 5605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 May 8, 1:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 1:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 145 PM CDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP IN EXTREME NORTHERN SECTION OF CWA AT 18Z. MORE THAN ADEQUATE MOISTURE WAS AVAILABLE ACROSS WEST TEXAS WITH MIDLAND AFD REPORTING 50-60 PERCENT RH UP TO 5000 MSL WITH SPECIAL 18Z SOUNDING. MODIFIED 12Z MAF SOUNDING ON SHARP INDICATED CAPES OF 4000 J/KG. WITH ADDITIONAL MOISTURE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE MDT RISK AREA TO MOVE WEST AND SOUTH OVER CONCHO VALLEY. DRYLINE EXTENDED FROM EAST OF SANDERSON AND FORT STOCKTON TO WEST OF HOBBS. TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE BIG COUNTRY AND PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERN CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND UNTIL 8 PM CDT. WITH MOISTURE TO WEST...SEVERAL LINES OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING...AS UPPER LEVEL LOW WAS STILL MOVING INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO. ADJUSTED POPS UP IN ABILENE AND SAN ANGELO ACCORDINGLY. LOOKING TOWARD TOMORROW...EXPECT WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY ACROSS ALL BUT NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY...AS STRONG SURFACE LOW WILL BE SITUATED OVER NORTHWEST TEXAS AT 12Z/SAT. ABI 061/086 40 JCT 057/093 20 SJT 059/093 40 04
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 47 min |
| May 8, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 61 min |
| May 8, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 64 min |
| May 8, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 49 min |
| May 8, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 45 min |
| May 8, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 36 min |
| May 8, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho | 33 min |
| May 8, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 48 min |
| May 8, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 36 min |
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.