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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 28, 2015Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2015, 2:13 PM CDT for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 28, 2015, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Lee County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 364 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: 1229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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 Jun 28, 12:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 12:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 3:33 AM CDT, 10 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
333 AM CDT SUN JUN 28 2015

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-290845-
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-
333 AM CDT SUN JUN 28 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS
POSSIBLY CAUSING MINOR FLOODING AND ISOLATED STRONG STORMS WITH
GUSTY WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS.

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

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY. ONE OR
TWO STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS MAINLY
ACROSS EASTERN AREAS.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AND NEXT
SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:13 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
Jun 27, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	34 min
Jun 27, 7:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet	114 min
Jun 27, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Wilson	36 min
Jun 27, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lavaca	28 min
Jun 28, 1:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Real, Uvalde	2 hr
Jun 28, 3:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Gillespie	3 hr
Jun 28, 5:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
Jun 28, 5:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Llano	2 hr
Jun 28, 5:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Blanco, Hays	116 min
Jun 28, 6:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kendall, Kerr	117 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.