Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 64
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 26, 1998, 12:00 AM CST for 14 parishes in Louisiana; 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 1998, 12:00 AM CST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Marion County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Wharton County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 12:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Walker | 59 min |
| Feb 26, 12:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Smith | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 12:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Waller | 65 min |
| Feb 26, 12:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto, Trinity | 68 min |
| Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches | 96 min |
| Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Rusk | 96 min |
| Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Marion | 96 min |
| Feb 26, 1:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola | 61 min |
| Feb 26, 1:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 64 min |
| Feb 26, 1:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Shelby | 59 min |
| Feb 26, 1:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 63 min |
| Feb 26, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto | 95 min |
| Feb 26, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 95 min |
| Feb 26, 1:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine, San Augustine | 75 min |
| Feb 26, 2:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 64 min |
| Feb 26, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Red River | 61 min |
| Feb 26, 2:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Webster | 93 min |
| Feb 26, 3:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Austin | 3 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 3:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Winn | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 4:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado, Wharton | 59 min |
| Feb 26, 4:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 112 min |
| Feb 26, 5:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 29 min |
| Feb 26, 5:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 6:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Saint Tammany | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson, Caldwell and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Dallas and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell, Edwards and 23 more | 4 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.