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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2016, 11:12 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 26, 2016, 11:12 PM CDT (04:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2016, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2806 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 17.9
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Apr 26, 8:12 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 8:12 PM CDT, 3 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 10:29 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1029 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-280330- 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- 1029 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA THROUGH 5AM. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEGUN TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTION OF THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND WILL SHIFT THROUGH THE HILL COUNTRY AND PORTIONS OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE AREA ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS EVENING AS THE LINE BEGINS TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. ALLEN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 11:12 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1112 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016
TXZ183-270445-
VAL VERDE TX-
1112 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN VAL VERDE COUNTY
UNTIL 1145 PM CDT...
AT 1111 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES WEST OF JUNO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JUNO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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LAT...LON 3027 10142 3029 10133 3029 10088 3008 10085
3005 10142
TIME...MOT...LOC 0411Z 260DEG 33KT 3020 10129
LJHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 72 min |
| Apr 26, 11:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Real, Val Verde | 69 min |
| Apr 27, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 12:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 42 min |
| Apr 27, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Llano | 63 min |
| Apr 27, 1:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 64 min |
| Apr 27, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie | 67 min |
| Apr 27, 1:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Real | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 64 min |
| Apr 27, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays and 2 more | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 2:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar, Medina, Uvalde | 64 min |
| Apr 27, 2:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Uvalde | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 2:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 3:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Fayette, Frio and 8 more | 59 min |
| Apr 27, 3:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Caldwell | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 3:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Medina | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 3:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt and 8 more | 63 min |
| Apr 27, 4:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 4:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Guadalupe, Wilson | 55 min |
| Apr 27, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina | 25 min |
| Apr 27, 4:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Wilson | 37 min |
| Apr 27, 5:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Guadalupe | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 5:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 6:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 7:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 30 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.