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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Mar 8, 2016, 1:23 AM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
- Mar 8, 2016, 1:23 AM CST (07:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2016, 2:15 AM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 1458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Mar 7, 11:39 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 11:39 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 1:12 AM CST, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 8, 1:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 1:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 1:47 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 2:22 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 2:32 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 28 min |
| Mar 8, 2:37 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 3:03 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 28 min |
| Mar 8, 6:28 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Llano | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 6:56 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Llano | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 7:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 8:51 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 9:02 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 9:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 2:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 75 min |
| Mar 8, 4:14 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 61 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.