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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 28, 2014Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2014, 3:52 AM CDT for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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 28, 2014, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2014, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Lee County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 295 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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.

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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 28, 3:38 AM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 3:38 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 27, 5:11 AM CDT, 22 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
511 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-280300-
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-
511 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

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

A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM UNTIL 9 PM FOR AREAS
ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. A DRYLINE WILL PUSH ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY BRINGING GUSTY WEST WINDS...HOT TEMPERATURES...AND
VERY LOW HUMIDITIES. THE LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH
THE RECENT LACK OF RAINFALL WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER
CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL
LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND
TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE
REGION DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:52 AM 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 27, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lee	49 min
Apr 27, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	52 min
Apr 27, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	38 min
Apr 27, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lee	46 min
Apr 28, 11:02 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal and 17 more	9 hr
Apr 28, 3:55 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal and 17 more	27 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.