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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 19, 2014Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2014, 2:08 AM CDT for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
Aug 19, 2014, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Kinney County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2014-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1083 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2014-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1083 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2218 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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.

454 
WWUS84 KEWX 190708
SPSEWX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
208 AM CDT TUE AUG 19 2014

TXZ184-202-190800-
EDWARDS-KINNEY-
208 AM CDT TUE AUG 19 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN KINNEY AND
SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM CDT...

AT 206 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARTA VALLEY...OR 22 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BRACKETTVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CARTA VALLEY...
  KICKAPOO CAVERN STATE PARK...

LAT...LON 2980 10070 2979 10041 2951 10047 2952 10068
TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 183DEG 5KT 2960 10057

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 8:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXVal Verde48 min
Aug 18, 8:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXVal Verde42 min
Aug 18, 9:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBandera46 min
Aug 18, 9:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera3 hr
Aug 18, 10:08 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXMedina, Uvalde112 min
Aug 18, 11:08 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXUvalde112 min
Aug 18, 11:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera3 hr
Aug 18, 11:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBexar, Medina60 min
Aug 19, 12:55 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXEdwards, Kerr, Real2 hr
Aug 19, 1:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Kerr, Real3 hr
Aug 19, 3:00 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXEdwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde2 hr
Aug 19, 3:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Uvalde3 hr
Aug 19, 6:57 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXUvalde2 hr
Aug 19, 7:21 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXBandera, Medina2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.