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Areal Flood Advisory 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

January 25, 2012Comal County, Guadalupe County, Hays County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this areal flood advisory at Jan 25, 2012, 4:54 AM CST for Comal County, Guadalupe County, Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 25, 2012, 4:54 AM CST (10:54 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 2012, 7:00 AM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Comal County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1865 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Jan 25, 4:20 AM CST, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 4:20 AM CST, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 24, 6:10 AM CST, 22 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 25, 3:19 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 3:44 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 4:30 AM CST, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 4:31 AM CST, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 4:32 AM CST, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 25, 4:46 AM CST, 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 10:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	26 min
Jan 24, 10:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	35 min
Jan 24, 10:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	38 min
Jan 24, 11:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	28 min
Jan 24, 11:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards	16 min
Jan 24, 11:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	35 min
Jan 24, 11:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	32 min
Jan 25, 12:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	40 min
Jan 25, 1:17 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar	103 min
Jan 25, 1:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	42 min
Jan 25, 2:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	6 hr
Jan 25, 2:06 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	114 min
Jan 25, 2:15 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Hays, Travis	105 min
Jan 25, 2:47 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis	42 min
Jan 25, 4:06 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall	114 min
Jan 25, 4:09 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell	111 min
Jan 25, 4:26 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop	3 hr
Jan 25, 4:26 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
Jan 25, 5:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis	3 hr
Jan 25, 5:49 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Guadalupe	101 min
Jan 25, 5:54 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell	2 hr
Jan 25, 6:07 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Lee	3 hr
Jan 25, 6:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lee	52 min
Jan 25, 6:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	14 hr
Jan 25, 6:39 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	14 hr
Jan 25, 6:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop	3 hr
Jan 25, 6:56 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Wilson	32 hr
Jan 25, 7:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Fayette	3 hr
Jan 25, 9:05 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales	34 hr
Jan 25, 9:05 AM CST	River Flood Warning	EWX	Gonzales	60 hr
Jan 25, 9:27 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop	2 hr
Jan 25, 5:49 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop	101 min

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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.