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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 26, 2015Lavaca County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2015, 4:24 PM CDT for Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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 26, 2015, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Lavaca County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 26, 2:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 2:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 2:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
211 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2015

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-271915-
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-
211 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. FOR THE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING HOURS...THE GREATEST CONCERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL
REMAIN ALONG AND NORTH OF A DEL RIO TO GEORGETOWN LINE. THE MAIN
CONCERNS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT.

A SECOND ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE
HILL COUNTRY LATE THIS EVENING...THEN MOVE INTO THE INTERSTATE 35
CORRIDOR DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE MAIN
CONCERNS WILL DAMAGING WIND...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LARGE
HAIL. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT.

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

THE SLIGHT RISK FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
EARLY MONDAY MORNING FOR AREAS EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 AND
INTERSTATE 37 CORRIDORS. THE MAIN CONCERNS WILL DAMAGING WINDS
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 4:24 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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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.