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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 13, 2012Kinney County, Uvalde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Sep 13, 2012, 5:02 PM CDT for Kinney County, Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 13, 2012, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 13, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Kinney County, TX, Uvalde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Sep 12, 6:37 PM CDT, 22 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 6:37 PM CDT, 22 hours 25 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
Sep 12, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	29 min
Sep 12, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	28 min
Sep 13, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop	48 min
Sep 13, 1:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette, Lee	101 min
Sep 13, 2:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Val Verde	3 hr
Sep 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Hays, Kendall, Llano and 2 more	2 hr
Sep 13, 4:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar	104 min
Sep 13, 5:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Kendall, Kerr	3 hr
Sep 13, 6:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Uvalde, Zavala	108 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.