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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 24, 2013Edwards County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2013, 2:08 AM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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: May 24, 2013, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2013, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Edwards County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 2671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

020 
WWUS84 KEWX 240708
SPSEWX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
208 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2013

TXZ184-185-240800-
EDWARDS-REAL-
208 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN REAL AND NORTHERN
EDWARDS COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM CDT...

AT 159 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF
ROCKSPRINGS TO 8 MILES NORTH OF ROCKSPRINGS TO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ROCKSPRINGS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  ROCKSPRINGS...
  DEVILS SINKHOLE STATE NATURAL AREA...
  PRADE RANCH...

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

THE HEAVY RAIN MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES...LOW WATER
CROSSINGS AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3011 9977 2994 9977 2990 10002 3010 10054
      3014 10029 3030 10018 3030 10016
TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 294DEG 22KT 3019 10013 3010 10019
          3008 10034

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 1:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	46 min
May 24, 3:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Real, Val Verde	3 hr
May 24, 3:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards, Real	43 min
May 24, 4:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	37 min
May 24, 4:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Val Verde	3 hr
May 24, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney, Real, Uvalde	67 min
May 24, 5:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Real	3 hr
May 24, 5:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	59 min
May 24, 6:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kinney	108 min
May 24, 6:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde	70 min
May 24, 7:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Maverick	58 min
May 24, 8:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	40 min
May 24, 8:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Real, Uvalde	106 min
May 24, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit, Kinney, Uvalde	45 min
May 24, 9:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Uvalde	4 hr
May 24, 9:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Uvalde	63 min
May 24, 10:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	41 min
May 24, 10:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Kerr, Medina, Real, Uvalde	108 min
May 24, 10:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio, Medina	43 min
May 24, 11:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	48 min
May 24, 11:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	41 min
May 24, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Kendall	45 min
May 24, 12:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Kendall	105 min
May 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Comal	46 min
May 24, 1:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	3 hr
May 24, 2:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe	117 min
May 24, 2:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa	2 hr
May 24, 2:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet	3 hr
May 24, 2:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis	4 hr
May 24, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Karnes	67 min
May 24, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Hays	47 min
May 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Travis, Williamson	107 min
May 24, 4:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Wilson	115 min
May 24, 6:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson	116 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.