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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2013, 8:42 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 10, 2013, 8:42 AM CDT (13:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2013, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 2458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
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 May 10, 6:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 6:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 650 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013 .AVIATION... A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS SOUTHEASTWARD THIS MORNING...WITH TSRA EXPECTED AT KAUS/KSAT/KSSF THROUGH 13/14Z. BEHIND THIS INITIAL ACTIVITY...A GENERAL LULL IN CONVECTION IS EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING. HOWEVER...PERIODIC SHRA IS EXPECTED GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM KECU TO KHDO TO KPEZ. CHANCES FOR CONVECTION WILL INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS AND LINGER THROUGH THE EVENING IN ASSOCIATION WITH A COLD FRONT. LOW CIGS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING WITH A SLOW IMPROVEMENT DURING THE AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS AT KDRT ARE EXPECTED TO BE MARGINALLY BETTER...WITH LESS AREAL COVERAGE OF STORMS AND AN EARLIER RETURN TO VFR CONDITIONS. RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL CAUSE SFC WINDS THIS MORNING TO GENERALLY BE NE TO NLY 10 TO 15 KTS. OTHERWISE...WINDS WILL MOSTLY BE E TO NELY NEAR 10 KTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY...WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 25 KTS IN/NEAR CONVECTION. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 345 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013/ SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY)... BRIEF LULL IN CONVECTION EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS S CENTRAL TX. HOWEVER REMNANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM LAST NIGHTS STORMS/AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT...S-SELY 25-35 KNOT LOW LEVEL INFLOW...AS WELL AS UPPER AIR DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE STRONG CHANCES FOR ORGANIZED CONVECTION THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ALREADY STRONG NEW CONVECTION SKIRTING THE FAR NWRN CWA IN VICINITY OF AN OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. EXPECTED THE CONVECTION TO SINK/DEVELOP SOUTHWARD INTO THE CWA DURING THE DAY WITH THE COLD FRONT. THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS AS AIRMASS REMAINS MODERATELY UNSTABLE WITH MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL. SCATTERED POST FRONTAL SHOWERS/ STORMS TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY WITH THE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE SRN CWA...AS MORE STABLE AIR FILTERS INTO THE NRN CWA. SLIGHTLY COOLER TONIGHT AND SATURDAY BEHIND THE FRONT AS WINDS SHIFT TO NELY. LONG TERM (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)... DECREASING RAIN CHANCES SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS THE UPPER LOW TO THE WEST SINKS SOUTHWARD AND THE DISTURBANCES PASS FURTHER SOUTH ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...ALTHOUGH THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS COULD STILL SEE ISOLATED STORMS DEVELOP OVER THE MEXICAN MOUNTAINS AND CROSS THE RIO GRANDE BEFORE DISSIPATING. RAINS CHANCES INCREASE AGAIN BY MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AS THE UPPER LOW OVER MEXICO BEGINS TO LIFT NEWD ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS...TAPERING OFF FROM THE WEST WEDNESDAY-WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A RIDGE BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST BEHIND THE EJECTING LOW/TROF. NO POPS AND WARMER TEMPERATURES THURSDAY- FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK AS UPPER RIDGE KEEPS SOUTH TEXAS UNDER GENERAL SUBSIDENCE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 81 61 80 58 83 / 60 30 20 10 - AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 81 60 79 55 82 / 60 30 20 10 - NEW BRAUNFELS MUNI AIRPORT 83 62 80 57 83 / 60 30 30 10 10 BURNET MUNI AIRPORT 79 59 79 55 81 / 60 30 20 10 - DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 91 67 82 64 85 / 30 40 40 20 20 GEORGETOWN MUNI AIRPORT 79 60 79 55 81 / 60 30 20 - - HONDO MUNI AIRPORT 85 64 79 59 83 / 50 40 30 10 10 SAN MARCOS MUNI AIRPORT 82 61 79 57 81 / 60 30 20 10 - LA GRANGE - FAYETTE REGIONAL 83 65 80 61 83 / 50 40 30 10 10 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 82 63 79 59 82 / 60 40 30 10 10 STINSON MUNI AIRPORT 83 64 81 61 82 / 60 40 30 10 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && MESOSCALE/AVIATION...05 SYNOPTIC/GRIDS...01
Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 4:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 433 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-110945- LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 433 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE COMBINATION OF UPPER AIR DISTURBANCES INTERACTING WITH A COLD FRONT...AND AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN THE LOW LEVELS WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION TODAY INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT OF LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Dimmit | 66 min |
| May 9, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Mason | 73 min |
| May 9, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick | 55 min |
| May 9, 7:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real | 80 min |
| May 9, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 72 min |
| May 9, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 68 min |
| May 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 44 min |
| May 9, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 56 min |
| May 9, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Maverick | 47 min |
| May 9, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Real | 56 min |
| May 9, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 51 min |
| May 9, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall | 54 min |
| May 9, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 47 min |
| May 9, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall | 61 min |
| May 9, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 48 min |
| May 9, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays | 65 min |
| May 9, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays | 51 min |
| May 9, 11:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Guadalupe | 46 min |
| May 9, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 54 min |
| May 10, 12:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 44 min |
| May 10, 1:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 29 min |
| May 10, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 25 min |
| May 10, 3:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 23 min |
| May 10, 4:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 52 min |
| May 10, 4:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 51 min |
| May 10, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Real | 41 min |
| May 10, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr | 33 min |
| May 10, 5:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Kendall, Kerr | 46 min |
| May 10, 6:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Medina | 50 min |
| May 10, 6:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Comal, Hays | 43 min |
| May 10, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Medina | 43 min |
| May 10, 7:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays | 49 min |
| May 10, 7:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson | 52 min |
| May 10, 8:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Wilson | 45 min |
| May 10, 8:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 37 min |
| May 10, 9:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lavaca | 51 min |
| May 10, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 46 min |
| May 10, 9:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 38 min |
| May 10, 9:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lavaca | 43 min |
| May 10, 1:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Gonzales | 42 min |
| May 10, 1:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Terrell | 34 min |
| May 10, 1:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lavaca | 46 min |
| May 10, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 38 min |
| May 10, 2:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| May 10, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 58 min |
| May 10, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 51 min |
| May 10, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real | 53 min |
| May 10, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 45 min |
| May 10, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Medina | 44 min |
| May 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 49 min |
| May 10, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 39 min |
| May 10, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera, Kinney, Uvalde | 45 min |
| May 10, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 40 min |
| May 10, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 62 min |
| May 10, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Medina | 52 min |
| May 10, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 50 min |
| May 10, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 48 min |
| May 10, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 66 min |
| May 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Llano | 46 min |
| May 10, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 40 min |
| May 10, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kendall | 53 min |
| May 10, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 48 min |
| May 10, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 44 min |
| May 10, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Medina | 67 min |
| May 10, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 57 min |
| May 10, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 51 min |
| May 10, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.