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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Nov 22, 2014, 12:02 PM CST for Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Nov 22, 2014, 12:02 PM CST (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 22, 2014, 12:45 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Gonzales County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Nov 22, 10:52 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 10:52 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1150 AM CST SAT NOV 22 2014 TXZ191-192-205>208-221830- BEXAR-CALDWELL-COMAL-GUADALUPE-HAYS-TRAVIS- 1150 AM CST SAT NOV 22 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN COMAL...NORTHEASTERN BEXAR...NORTHWESTERN CALDWELL...SOUTHWESTERN TRAVIS...HAYS AND NORTHWESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTIES UNTIL 1230 PM CST... AT 1148 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CIBOLO...OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW BRAUNFELS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NEW BRAUNFELS... CANYON LAKE DAM... SAN MARCOS... WIMBERLEY... DRIPPING SPRINGS... TANGLEWOOD FOREST... AUSTIN BERGSTROM INT AP... ZORN... WOODCREEK... KYLE... 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. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AREA ROADS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 3033 9812 3018 9757 2953 9812 2958 9839 TIME...MOT...LOC 1749Z 210DEG 24KT 2965 9819
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 12:02 PM CST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1202 PM CST SAT NOV 22 2014 TXZ223-224-221845- DE WITT-GONZALES- 1202 PM CST SAT NOV 22 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL GONZALES AND NORTHERN DEWITT COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 PM CST... AT 1157 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF WESTHOFF...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF YORKTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GONZALES... WESTHOFF... CHEAPSIDE... SAMPLE... WRIGHTSBORO... HAMON... COST... GLAZE CITY... 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. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AREA ROADS AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 2960 9752 2942 9724 2914 9752 2919 9766 TIME...MOT...LOC 1802Z 207DEG 16KT 2921 9755
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Nov 21, 8:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Blanco | 31 min |
| Nov 21, 9:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 40 min |
| Nov 21, 9:44 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 61 min |
| Nov 22, 10:25 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Blanco | 35 min |
| Nov 22, 11:04 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Blanco | 26 min |
| Nov 22, 11:20 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Hays | 25 min |
| Nov 22, 11:37 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 38 min |
| Nov 22, 11:50 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays | 2 hr |
| Nov 22, 11:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Comal, Hays | 40 min |
| Nov 22, 12:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 62 min |
| Nov 22, 12:33 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Hays, Travis | 3 hr |
| Nov 22, 12:46 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Hays | 44 min |
| Nov 22, 12:58 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 62 min |
| Nov 22, 1:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 62 min |
| Nov 22, 1:15 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Travis | 60 min |
| Nov 22, 1:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Nov 22, 1:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 60 min |
| Nov 22, 2:04 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 116 min |
| Nov 22, 2:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 64 min |
| Nov 22, 2:14 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lavaca | 61 min |
| Nov 22, 2:23 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 22 min |
| Nov 22, 2:32 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 103 min |
| Nov 22, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 40 min |
| Nov 22, 2:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 22 min |
| Nov 22, 3:39 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 66 min |
| Nov 22, 4:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde | 53 min |
| Nov 22, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala | 57 min |
| Nov 22, 4:56 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 2 hr |
| Nov 22, 5:07 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Burnet | 113 min |
| Nov 22, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Medina, Real, Uvalde | 44 min |
| Nov 22, 5:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Comal and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 22, 5:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Maverick | 41 min |
| Nov 22, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick, Zavala | 50 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.