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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 14, 2016Fayette County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2016, 4:31 PM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 14, 2016, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Fayette County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 1239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 May 14, 3:34 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 3:34 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 11:03 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1103 AM CDT SAT MAY 14 2016

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-151615-
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-
1103 AM CDT SAT MAY 14 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. HAIL AND GUSTY
WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. THESE STRONG STORMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS COULD LEAD TO A
LOCALIZED FLASH FLOOD THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

PERIODS OF ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE
SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A THREAT FOR ISOLATED HEAVY
DOWNPOURS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.
ANY OF THESE ISOLATED HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD PRODUCE A QUICK 1 TO 3
INCHES OF RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING
REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 14, 1:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 2:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 3:38 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 3:51 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 3:53 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 4:31 PM CDT, 0 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
May 13, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Fayette	49 min
May 14, 7:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Real	3 hr
May 14, 8:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	3 hr
May 14, 10:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Uvalde	3 hr
May 14, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	46 min
May 14, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	43 min
May 14, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	52 min
May 14, 11:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	42 min
May 14, 12:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	42 min
May 14, 12:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	38 min
May 14, 12:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala	3 hr
May 14, 12:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	50 min
May 14, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	42 min
May 14, 1:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
May 14, 1:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Frio	3 hr
May 14, 2:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
May 14, 2:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet, Llano	3 hr
May 14, 3:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	4 hr
May 14, 3:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Blanco, Hays, Travis	3 hr
May 14, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	52 min
May 14, 3:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Lee, Williamson	4 hr
May 14, 4:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis	2 hr
May 14, 4:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Fayette	3 hr
May 14, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	50 min
May 14, 5:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Williamson	118 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.