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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 12, 2016, 10:04 AM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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
- May 12, 2016, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2016, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Burnet County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 83 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
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 1737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 May 12, 6:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 6:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 509 AM CDT THU MAY 12 2016 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-131200- 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- 509 AM CDT THU MAY 12 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP...SOME MAY BE STRONG WITH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IF STORMS DEVELOP.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 9:08 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 9:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 52 min |
| May 12, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 40 min |
| May 12, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 40 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.