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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 9, 2012Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Dec 9, 2012, 5:21 PM CST for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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
Dec 9, 2012, 5:21 PM CST (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Dec 9, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Lee County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 284 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 12:00Z on 2012-12-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-12-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

216 
WWUS84 KEWX 092321
SPSEWX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
521 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012

TXZ194-100000-
LEE-
521 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN LEE COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM
CST...

AT 519 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF 
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER LEE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 TO 50
MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH FREQUENT 
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  LEXINGTON...
  DIME BOX...
  LINCOLN...
  LOEBAU...
  LEO...
  OLD DIME BOX...

LAT...LON 3024 9670 3023 9673 3019 9673 3014 9695
      3039 9708 3054 9692 3047 9689 3036 9676
      3034 9675 3031 9664 3029 9664
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 221DEG 14KT 3027 9696

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 9, 4:53 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBurnet52 min
Dec 9, 5:03 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementEWXLavaca42 min
Dec 9, 5:30 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementEWXLavaca45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.