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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 30, 2015Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2015, 5:00 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 30, 2015, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2015, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Fayette County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 1820 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 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 May 30, 4:42 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 4:42 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 4:43 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
443 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-312145-
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-
443 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY
INTO TONIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BE SLOW MOVING AND CONTAIN LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED
WITH TOTALS OF NEAR 3 INCHES POSSIBLE. EVEN THESE LOWER AMOUNTS
IN A QUICK TIME FRAME COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN MANY AREAS
GIVEN THE SATURATED CONDITIONS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT
FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. ALSO...A FEW
STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY. HEAVY
RAINS ARE APPEARING LESS LIKELY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING DUE TO STRONG STORMS
AND THE FLOODING THREAT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 4:19 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 4:35 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 4:43 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 4:48 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 5:00 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 5:00 PM 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 30, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Llano, Real, Val Verde	51 min
May 30, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall and 4 more	64 min
May 30, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	49 min
May 30, 11:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Val Verde	109 min
May 30, 11:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards, Kinney	64 min
May 30, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Val Verde	40 min
May 30, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney	45 min
May 30, 1:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kinney, Maverick	2 hr
May 30, 1:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Maverick	52 min
May 30, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde	47 min
May 30, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Comal, Hays, Kendall	45 min
May 30, 2:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit, Uvalde, Zavala	54 min
May 30, 2:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Kinney, Uvalde	3 hr
May 30, 2:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall and 2 more	4 hr
May 30, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Hays, Kendall	36 min
May 30, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Guadalupe	43 min
May 30, 3:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays	4 hr
May 30, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	47 min
May 30, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	51 min
May 30, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe	61 min
May 30, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Guadalupe	49 min
May 30, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Fayette	49 min
May 30, 4:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Medina, Wilson	4 hr
May 30, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell	39 min
May 30, 4:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe	4 hr
May 30, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	47 min
May 30, 4:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Travis	3 hr
May 30, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, DeWitt, Karnes	39 min
May 30, 5:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	2 hr
May 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, DeWitt, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson	3 hr
May 30, 5:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes, Lavaca	4 hr
May 30, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	DeWitt	41 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.