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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, 9:02 AM CST for Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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, 9:02 AM CST (15:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2016, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1032 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
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 8, 7:27 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 7:27 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 542 AM CST TUE MAR 8 2016 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-091145- 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- 542 AM CST TUE MAR 8 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A LINE OF STRONG STORMS MAY CLIP PORTIONS OF LLANO AND NORTHERN BURNET COUNTY THIS MORNING. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE BIG BEND AND MEXICO BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...THEN MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREATS ARE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...BUT ONE OR TWO TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD AVERAGE 1 TO 3 INCHES...WITH AN ISOLATED POCKET OR TWO OF UP TO 5 INCHES EAST OF I-35. THIS COULD CAUSE SOME FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS AS WELL AS OTHER AREAS THAT NORMALLY HAVE FASTER RUNOFF. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...BUT THESE SHOULD POSE NO SEVERE OR HEAVY RAIN THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT.
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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 6:28 AM CST, 2 hours 34 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, 1:23 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 52 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, 9:16 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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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.