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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2013, 3:49 AM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 26, 2013, 3:49 AM CDT (08:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2013, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 May 25, 11:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 11:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 4:15 PM CDT, 11 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 415 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-261200- 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- 415 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON INTO SUNDAY MORNING... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. MOST OF THE RAINFALL TONIGHT WILL BE LIGHT TO MODERATE BEFORE MIDNIGHT. AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM CONTINUES TO TRACK EAST...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WITH HEAVIER RAINFALL... GENERALLY EAST OF LLANO TO COMFORT TO JOURDANTON LINE THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY. ANY RAINFALL IN LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ON SATURDAY WILL CAUSE MORE FLOODING PROBLEMS. ADDITIONAL SPOTTY RAINFALL OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS TO 6 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY EAST OF I-35 AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY... AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM CONTINUES TO TRACK EAST...RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN TO DIMINISH ACROSS THE REGION BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 3:49 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
349 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013
TXZ183-184-260945-
EDWARDS-VAL VERDE-
349 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR VAL VERDE AND NORTHERN EDWARDS
COUNTIES UNTIL 445 AM CDT...
AT 339 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM FORT MCKAVETT TO 8
MILES NORTHEAST OF PANDALE...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND 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...
JUNO...
LOMA ALTA...
FLOUR MILLS...
BAKERS CROSSING...
DEVILS RIVER STATE NATURAL AREA...
VINEGARONE...
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 3030 10134 3030 9982 3024 9980 2964 10130
3022 10154
TIME...MOT...LOC 0849Z 341DEG 24KT 3070 10009 3017 10141The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 58 min |
| May 26, 6:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney, Real | 41 min |
| May 26, 7:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 41 min |
| May 26, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Medina | 85 min |
| May 26, 9:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Medina, Uvalde | 2 hr |
| May 26, 11:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 118 min |
| May 26, 4:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Kendall, Kerr, Medina | 113 min |
| May 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Frio | 34 min |
| May 26, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Zavala | 32 min |
| May 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Zavala | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Medina | 105 min |
| May 26, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Dimmit | 44 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.