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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

January 1, 1999Lee County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-01-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 665 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-01-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 161 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 1, 6:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Travis, Williamson75 min
Jan 1, 7:03 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXGuadalupe, Wilson62 min
Jan 1, 7:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales93 min
Jan 1, 7:19 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXCaldwell61 min
Jan 1, 7:32 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXGonzales63 min
Jan 1, 8:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXGonzales2 hr
Jan 1, 8:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette, Lavaca89 min
Jan 1, 8:50 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXLavaca65 min
Jan 1, 9:19 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXGonzales, Lavaca61 min
Jan 1, 9:25 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXLavaca3 hr
Jan 1, 10:43 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXFayette, Gonzales92 min
Jan 1, 10:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette, Gonzales92 min
Jan 1, 11:31 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningEWXFayette, Lavaca119 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1999Every tornado warning in 1999Tornadoes in 1999

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.