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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 4, 2014Dimmit County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2014, 2:57 AM CDT for Dimmit County, 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2014, 2:57 AM CDT (07:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2014, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Dimmit County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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

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 Apr 4, 2:09 AM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 2:09 AM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 10:13 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1013 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-050100-
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-
1013 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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

ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY AFTERNOON
ALONG AND WEST OF I-35. HUMIDITIES AND WINDS WILL BE LOWER IN THE
WEST...WITH HUMIDITIES AND WINDS HIGHER IN THE EAST. ELEVATED TO
NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO WESTERN AREAS
SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO EVENING DUE TO LOW HUMIDITIES AND BREEZY
WINDS. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY
THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS ACROSS THE WESTERN AREAS DUE TO LOW
HUMIDITIES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 9:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
912 PM CDT THU APR 03 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0812 PM     HAIL             8 NE INGRAM             30.17N  99.15W
04/03/2014  E0.50 INCH       GILLESPIE          TX   PUBLIC

            PEA TO HALF INCH SIZE HAIL

&&

EVENT NUMBER EWX1400242

SBS

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 11:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1112 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014

TXZ202-203-040500-
KINNEY-UVALDE-
1112 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN UVALDE AND EASTERN
KINNEY COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...

AT 1104 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLINE...OR 18 MILES EAST OF BRACKETTVILLE...
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...
ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  UVALDE...
  BLEWETT...

THIS STORM 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.

LAT...LON 2940 9963 2910 9967 2922 10025 2941 10012
TIME...MOT...LOC 0412Z 280DEG 13KT 2930 10007

Special weather statement, Apr 4, 2:57 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
257 AM CDT FRI APR 4 2014

TXZ218-219-228-040845-
DIMMIT-FRIO-ZAVALA-
257 AM CDT FRI APR 4 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN ZAVALA...
SOUTHWESTERN FRIO AND NORTHEASTERN DIMMIT COUNTIES UNTIL 345 AM
CDT...

AT 254 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF BIG WELLS...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF DIVOT.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BIG WELLS...
  DILLEY...
  DIVOT...
  STATE HIGHWAY 85...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN
EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. 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.

LAT...LON 2854 9974 2892 9943 2867 9911 2863 9918
      2864 9938 2851 9939 2834 9968
TIME...MOT...LOC 0756Z 257DEG 24KT 2849 9959

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Real	48 min
Apr 3, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano	41 min
Apr 3, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr	40 min
Apr 3, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie	44 min
Apr 3, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr	44 min
Apr 3, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Maverick	52 min
Apr 3, 11:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	48 min
Apr 3, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Uvalde	40 min
Apr 3, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala	51 min
Apr 4, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala	45 min
Apr 4, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala	58 min
Apr 4, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Frio, Medina	38 min
Apr 4, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Frio	42 min
Apr 4, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit	45 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.