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Tropical Storm Warning 1002, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 15, 20154 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tropical storm warning at Jun 15, 2015, 10:16 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 27 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2015, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2015, 12:59 AM CDT
In force: 27 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Lavaca County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:18 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 376 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: 657 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tropical storm warning 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 tropical storm warning went out at Jun 15, 6:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 3:58 PM CDT, 6 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 8:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 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 15, 7:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr	118 min
Jun 15, 8:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	54 min
Jun 15, 10:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	116 min
Jun 15, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	55 min
Jun 16, 9:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt	70 hr
Jun 16, 3:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Medina	114 min
Jun 16, 4:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Lavaca	4 hr
Jun 16, 6:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Lavaca	6 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.