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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 9, 2005Edwards County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2005, 5:50 PM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 9, 2005, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2005, 6:36 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Edwards County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1419 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1100 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 9, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 5:24 AM CDT, 12 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
524 AM CDT SAT JUL 9 2005

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-101100-
ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DEWITT-
DIMMIT-EDWARDS-FAYETTE-FRIO-GILLESPIE-GONZALES-GUADALUPE-HAYS-KARNES-
KENDALL-KERR-KINNEY-LAVACA-LEE-LLANO-MAVERICK-MEDINA-REAL-TRAVIS-
UVALDE-VAL VERDE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-ZAVALA-
524 AM CDT SAT JUL 9 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. HOWEVER...HEAT INDEX READINGS
WILL RUN ABOUT 110 IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS
OVER THE SOUTHWEST SECTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...
HEAT INDEX READINGS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN ABOUT 110 IN THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS OVER THE SOUTHWEST SECTION OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT
THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.