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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 13, 2014Williamson County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 13, 2014, 9:16 PM CDT for Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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 13, 2014, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2014, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Williamson County, TX

The radar

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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 13, 7:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 7:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 7:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
754 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-141100-
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-
754 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION ON MONDAY. AHEAD
OF THE COLD FRONT...ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
REMAINS POSSIBLE. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE
SEVERE. VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR BEHIND THE FRONT AS
NORTHERLY WINDS STEADILY INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. A WIND
ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON MONDAY FOR
NORTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. IN
ADDITION...WITH DRY AND WINDY WEATHER BEHIND THE FRONT...A FEW
HOURS OF ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE FOR AREAS
WEST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 83.

WINDS WILL DIMINISH AND MUCH COLDER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE
REGION MONDAY NIGHT...RESULTING IN OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES
THAT WILL DROP WELL BELOW NORMAL. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES ARE
EXPECTED ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY WHERE NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES
ARE POSSIBLE.

ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY AFTERNOON
FOR AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 281 DUE TO LOW HUMIDITIES.

ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WEST OF HIGHWAY 83 DUE TO LOW
HUMIDITIES AND INCREASING SOUTH WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 13, 9:16 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
Apr 13, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	46 min
Apr 14, 7:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	48 min
Apr 14, 8:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Hays	50 min
Apr 14, 8:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	38 min
Apr 14, 8:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	64 min
Apr 14, 8:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	48 min
Apr 14, 9:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	48 min
Apr 14, 9:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	42 min
Apr 14, 9:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Hays, Kendall	46 min
Apr 14, 9:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	36 min
Apr 14, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	38 min
Apr 14, 10:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Wilson	40 min
Apr 14, 10:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	36 min
Apr 14, 10:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	50 min
Apr 14, 10:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis	43 min
Apr 14, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis	40 min
Apr 14, 10:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson	58 min
Apr 14, 11:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Travis	41 min
Apr 14, 11:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	51 min
Apr 14, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Medina, Zavala	42 min
Apr 14, 11:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lavaca	38 min
Apr 14, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca	44 min
Apr 14, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina	45 min
Apr 14, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca	50 min
Apr 14, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Wilson	49 min
Apr 14, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gonzales	44 min
Apr 14, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales	42 min
Apr 14, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lavaca	45 min
Apr 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lavaca	30 min
Apr 14, 3:59 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	EWX	Burnet, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Llano, Real	18 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.