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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 13, 2013Dimmit County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2013, 9:31 PM CDT for Dimmit County, Texas. It was in force for 74 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: Jun 13, 2013, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2013, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 74 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Dimmit County, TX

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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

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NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 4:44 AM CDT, 16 hours 47 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
444 AM CDT THU JUN 13 2013

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-141215-
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-
444 AM CDT THU JUN 13 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS
MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS DURING
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVER
THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FRIDAY
THROUGH SATURDAY WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. THE
GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BE
GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A MOUNTAIN HOME TO DILLEY LINE FRIDAY
MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY
RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND ARROYOS ALONG
WITH MINOR STREET FLOODING. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 9:31 PM CDT, 0 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
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala	65 min
Jun 13, 11:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick	3 hr
Jun 14, 2:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Dimmit	114 min
Jun 14, 3:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	EWX	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio and 10 more	42 hr
Jun 14, 8:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Maverick, Zavala	114 min
Jun 14, 10:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde	2 hr
Jun 14, 10:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Uvalde	34 min
Jun 14, 10:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde	3 hr
Jun 14, 12:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	3 hr
Jun 14, 1:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Dimmit, Zavala	2 hr
Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala	5 hr
Jun 14, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	39 min
Jun 14, 5:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Frio	2 hr
Jun 14, 6:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Wilson	119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.