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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 30, 2016Burnet County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2016, 3:15 AM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 30, 2016, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Burnet County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 1610 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 30, 1:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 1:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 9:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
958 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-310300-
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-
958 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO PUSH OVERNIGHT ACROSS
PARTS OF THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND HILL COUNTRY AREAS. SOME OF
THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG IN ADDITION OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN.
WITH GROUNDS ALREADY SATURATED PER HEAVY RAINS THE PAST FEW
DAYS...LITTLE RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING.
THEREFORE...THERE IS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS THE
EDWARDO PLATEAU AND HILL COUNTRY THROUGH 1 PM MONDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

A CONTINUED ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL PERSIST THROUGH THURSDAY
WITH NUMEROUS ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. ANY
STORM CLUSTERS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO PRODUCE SEVERE
WEATHER AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES. HEAVIEST RAIN
POTENTIAL IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR WHEN A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH
THURSDAY. BY THIS TIME...THERE WILL LIKELY BE A FEW LOCATIONS WITH
5-DAY STORM TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 8 INCHES. 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 30, 3:15 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
315 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

TXZ171-172-300900-
BURNET TX-LLANO TX-
315 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN BURNET AND NORTHEASTERN
LLANO COUNTIES UNTIL 400 AM CDT...

AT 315 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES SOUTH OF EVANT TO 7 MILES EAST OF BEND
TO NEAR CHEROKEE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BUCHANAN DAM...TOW...WATSON...BLUFFTON...SUNNYLANE AND LAKE VICTOR.

LAT...LON 3099 9788 3085 9803 3074 9848 3092 9866
      3092 9842 3094 9841 3096 9845 3098 9844
      3101 9846 3103 9844 3103 9791
TIME...MOT...LOC 0815Z 310DEG 21KT 3134 9815 3111 9839 3104 9868

HAMPSHIRE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 3:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Llano	49 min
May 30, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Llano	63 min
May 30, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie	43 min
May 30, 5:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Llano	3 hr
May 30, 5:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	52 min
May 30, 5:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal	40 min
May 30, 5:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Real	4 hr
May 30, 6:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	51 min
May 30, 7:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Wilson	59 min
May 30, 7:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera	3 hr
May 30, 7:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Medina	3 hr
May 30, 8:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gonzales	40 min
May 30, 8:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca	67 min
May 30, 9:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	63 min
May 30, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Llano	38 hr
May 30, 10:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera	19 hr

Nearby

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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.