Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 1, 1999, 7:19 PM CST for Caldwell County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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, 7:19 PM CST (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 1999, 8:20 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 020119 RRA TORSAT TXC055-020220- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 719 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALDWELL IN TEXAS * UNTIL 820 PM CST * AT 715 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWEEN LOCKHART AND LULING... MOVING . TOWARDS THE EAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MCMAHAN AND TO THE SOUTH OF MCMAHAN IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES ABANDON MOBILE HOMES! GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. JDS DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADIC WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SAFETY IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. BE MINDFUL OF RISING WATERS.p STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS OR CABLE TV FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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, 6:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lee | 47 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, 7:32 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.