Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 1, 1999, 6:58 PM CST for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
- Jan 1, 1999, 6:58 PM CST (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 1999, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 020058 RRA TORSAT TXC287-020145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 658 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LEE IN TEXAS * UNTIL 745 PM CST * AT 650 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR LEXINTON... MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NORTHER&N LEE COUNTY NEAR LEXINGTON AT THIS TIME IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JDS
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 Dec 31, 7:40 PM CST, 23 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 7:40 PM CST, 23 hours 18 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 740 PM CST THU DEC 31 1998 NO CHANGES. SCT SHRAS OVR COASTAL COUNTIES TDY...WITH TSRAS CONT 40 NM OFF THE COAST OF KENEDY COUNTY. MDLS ALL BRING THE CD FNT THRU VLY EARLY SAT MRNG WITH VERY COLD AIR XPCTD. SFC WNDS S 20-30 MPH PROGD BY ETA AND AVN WITH NGM MOS PREDICTING WNDS SUSTAINED IN THE MID 20S FRI PM. POST FROPA WNDS 25 TO 35 MPH LIKELY...WITH AVN SUSTAINED NW WNDS PREDICTED AT 30 KTS SAT NOON. ALTHOUGH SUN AND MON APPEAR VERY COLD ATTM...WINDS SHOULD NOT CALM OUT DURING EARLY SUN MRNG WITH MSTR RETAINED IN THE ATM. RADIATIONAL COOLING IS NEGATED...WITH CAA PRIMARY COOLER THEN. WRN VLY REFLECTING 32 TO 35 DEG F SUN MRNG BY AVN...WITH NEAR 40 COAST. MRF HAS 1032MB HIGH CENTERED OVR ACT 7 AM MON WITH VLY IN 549 TO 552DM 1000-500MB THICKNESSES. MON AM MAY BE MORE OF A PRBLM. MFE BKN055 NOW WITH BRO SCT0450 AND HRL CLR. NO CHANGES NECESSARY ATTM. 58 .BRO...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 6:12 PM CST, 46 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-021200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 612 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASH FLOODING THIS EVENING ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A LINE OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING AND POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. THE LINE OF STORMS EXTENDS FROM EASTERN BEXAR COUNTY NORTHEAST TO EASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AND WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS THROUGH GUADALUPE...CALDWELL... BASTROP AND LEE COUNTIES UNTIL AROUND 900 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. HEAVY AND PERSISTENT RAIN MAY BRING FLASH FLOODING TO THOSE COUNTIES EAST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR FROM AROUND SAN ANTONIO TO AUSTIN. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST AND SHOULD BE AFTER MIDNIGHT. SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL NEED TO BE ACTIVATED EAST OF THE HILL COUNTRY THIS EVENING. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: SOUTHWEST TEXAS FROM MIDLAND LBBSPSMAF...WWUS35 KMAF CONCHO VALLEY FROM SAN ANGELO LBBSPSSJT...WWUS35 KSJT NORTH TEXAS FROM FORT WORTH FTWSPSFTW...WWUS35 KFTW SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON SATSPSHOU...WWUS35 KHOU COASTAL BEND/ FROM CORPUS CHRISTI SATSPSCRP...WWUS35 KCRP RIO GRANDE PLAINS THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF THE ZONE FORECASTS...SHORT TERM FORECAST...WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ITSELF WILL BE UPDATED ONLY IF UNEXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF EXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP. THE OFFICIAL SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DATA AND PRODUCTS IS THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO...NOAA WEATHER WIRE...FAMILY OF SERVICES AND EMWIN. THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...NOAA WEATHER RADIO... OPERATING ON A FREQUENCY BETWEEN 162.400 MHZ AND 162.550 MHZ. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS HOME PAGE OF THE INTERNET WORLD WIDE WEB AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/EWX. TIMELY DELIVERY OF DATA AND PRODUCTS FROM THIS SERVER THROUGH THE INTERNET IS NOT GUARANTEED... UNLIKE DATA AND PRODUCTS DELIVERED FROM THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOURCES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis, Williamson | 75 min |
| Jan 1, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Guadalupe, Wilson | 62 min |
| Jan 1, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 93 min |
| Jan 1, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 61 min |
| Jan 1, 7:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 63 min |
| Jan 1, 8:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 2 hr |
| Jan 1, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 89 min |
| Jan 1, 8:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 65 min |
| Jan 1, 9:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Lavaca | 61 min |
| Jan 1, 9:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Jan 1, 10:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 92 min |
| Jan 1, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 92 min |
| Jan 1, 11:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 119 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.