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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 28, 2016Bandera County, Kerr County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2016, 6:26 PM CDT for Bandera County, Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 28, 2016, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Bandera County, TX, Kerr County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 1069 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -283 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 28, 3:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 4:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
410 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-291100-
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-
410 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 11 PM FOR AREAS
TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM LLANO TO BOERNE TO HONDO...THEN NORTH
OF A LINE FROM HONDO TO UVALDE TO DEL RIO. THERE IS A RISK OF
STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS THIS EVENING ACROSS THIS AREA. THE MAIN
THREAT WITH ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL. A SECONDARY THREAT
OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL LAND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IS ALSO
POSSIBLE. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS.
COVERAGE OF STORMS SHOULD BE SCATTERED.

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

A CONTINUED ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL PERSIST INTO LATE NEXT
WEEK. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHTLY STRONGER POTENTIAL OF STORMS
MID-WEEK. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AS IMPACTS FROM
POTENTIAL HAZARDS BECOME MORE CLEAR.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 6:26 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
626 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

TXZ186-187-290015-
BANDERA TX-KERR TX-
626 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR KERR AND NORTHWESTERN BANDERA
COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT...

AT 626 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
MEDINA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MEDINA...KERRVILLE...VANDERPOOL...HUNT...INGRAM...WALTONIA...KERR WILDLIFE
MANAGEMENT AREA...MOUNTAIN HOME...CYPRESS CREEK...KERRVILLE STATE PARK...
CENTER POINT AND CAMP VERDE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO.

&&

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3021 9930 3013 9930 3014 9896 3013 9892
      3011 9892 2968 9914 2965 9960 3026 9955
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 194DEG 28KT 2984 9931

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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 28, 2:22 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Hays, Lee and 3 more	6 hr
May 28, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	48 min
May 28, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina	47 min
May 28, 6:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Medina	3 hr

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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.