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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2016, 7:01 AM CDT for Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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, 7:01 AM CDT (12:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2016, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:04 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 2046 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
463 WWUS84 KEWX 301201 SPSEWX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 701 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2016 TXZ205-221-301300- WILSON TX-BEXAR TX- 701 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN BEXAR AND NORTHWESTERN WILSON COUNTIES UNTIL 800 AM CDT... AT 701 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR KIRBY...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAN ANTONIO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SAN ANTONIO...FLORESVILLE...SCHERTZ...ST. HEDWIG...ELMENDORF...LA VERNIA... CALAVERAS LAKE...SUTHERLAND SPRINGS...SAYERS...SOUTHTON...ADKINS...CANADA VERDE...PARITA...MARTINEZ...BRAUNIG LAKE...BROOKS CITY BASE AND BUENA VISTA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. 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. && LAT...LON 2937 9851 2951 9824 2912 9794 2909 9837 TIME...MOT...LOC 1201Z 326DEG 25KT 2936 9838 $$ ALLEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 45 min |
| 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, 7:24 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 |
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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.