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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 13, 2014Karnes County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 13, 2014, 12:11 AM CDT for Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 13, 2014, 12:11 AM CDT (05:11 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Karnes County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 2559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 May 13, 12:08 AM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 12:08 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 9:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 12, 11:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 11:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 12, 11:13 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 11:38 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 12, 11:42 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 12:11 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
May 12, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Kerr	35 min
May 12, 8:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	51 min
May 12, 9:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
May 12, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	40 min
May 12, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Blanco, Comal, Hays	3 hr
May 12, 10:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	3 hr
May 12, 10:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Maverick	43 min
May 12, 10:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar	114 min
May 12, 10:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Lee, Travis, Williamson	103 min
May 12, 10:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	23 min
May 12, 11:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	2 hr
May 12, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Guadalupe, Wilson	32 min
May 12, 11:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Hays, Travis	3 hr
May 12, 11:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Wilson	2 hr
May 12, 11:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Uvalde and 1 more	2 hr
May 12, 11:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette, Lee	2 hr
May 12, 11:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe	112 min
May 12, 11:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	2 hr
May 12, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Caldwell	48 min
May 12, 11:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	3 hr
May 13, 12:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette	115 min
May 13, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Wilson	48 min
May 13, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Caldwell	46 min
May 13, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	49 min
May 13, 12:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette, Gonzales, Lee	113 min
May 13, 12:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales	64 min
May 13, 12:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Karnes, Wilson	2 hr
May 13, 12:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe	2 hr
May 13, 1:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Wilson	3 hr
May 13, 1:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	60 min
May 13, 1:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca	3 hr
May 13, 1:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar	2 hr
May 13, 2:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lavaca	51 min
May 13, 8:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	6 hr
May 13, 8:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	6 hr
May 13, 8:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Wilson	13 hr

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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.