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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Jan 15, 2017, 10:22 PM CST for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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
- Jan 15, 2017, 10:22 PM CST (04:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2017, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Hays County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
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 Jan 15, 10:17 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 10:17 PM CST, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 15, 4:58 AM CST, 17 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 458 AM CST SUN JAN 15 2017 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-161100- 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- 458 AM CST SUN JAN 15 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH-CENTRAL TEXAS.. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ALONG AND WEST OF I-35. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...ISOLATED TORNADOES...AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER AND EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 15, 9:11 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
911 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2017
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0503 PM HAIL 10 SW CARTA VALLEY 29.72N 100.82W
01/15/2017 E1.00 INCH VAL VERDE TX OTHER FEDERAL
NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY BORDER PATROL
AGENTS ONE MILE SOUTH OF THE 277 AND 377 HIGHWAY
INTERSECTION
0527 PM HAIL CARTA VALLEY 29.80N 100.68W
01/15/2017 E1.25 INCH EDWARDS TX CO-OP OBSERVER
QUARTER TO SLIGHTLY LARGER SIZE HAILSTONES OBSERVED
0530 PM HAIL 4 E CARTA VALLEY 29.79N 100.62W
01/15/2017 M1.50 INCH EDWARDS TX STORM CHASER
QUARTER TO PING PONG SIZE HAIL COVERING THE ROAD ON
HIGHWAY 377 NEAR FM2523
0545 PM HAIL 16 N KICKAPOO CAVERN ST 29.84N 100.41W
01/15/2017 E2.50 INCH EDWARDS TX COCORAHS
TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL 17 MILES SW OF ROCKSPRINGS
0556 PM HAIL 9 NNE KICKAPOO CAVERN S 29.73N 100.41W
01/15/2017 E2.50 INCH EDWARDS TX STORM CHASER
0633 PM HAIL 12 ENE ROCKSPRINGS 30.08N 100.03W
01/15/2017 E0.25 INCH EDWARDS TX COCORAHS
0640 PM HAIL 4 WSW TUFF 29.76N 99.83W
01/15/2017 E0.70 INCH REAL TX STORM CHASER
DIME SIZE HAIL JUST WEST OF LEAKEY
0646 PM HAIL 7 NE CAMP WOOD 29.74N 99.92W
01/15/2017 E1.50 INCH REAL TX COCORAHS
0655 PM HAIL 5 N LEAKEY 29.80N 99.76W
01/15/2017 E2.00 INCH REAL TX TRAINED SPOTTER
0658 PM HAIL 6 N LEAKEY 29.81N 99.76W
01/15/2017 E3.00 INCH REAL TX PUBLIC
0720 PM HAIL VANDERPOOL 29.74N 99.55W
01/15/2017 E1.75 INCH BANDERA TX FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
0725 PM HAIL 4 SW BRACKETTVILLE 29.28N 100.45W
01/15/2017 E1.00 INCH KINNEY TX EMERGENCY MNGR
0745 PM HAIL 6 E BRACKETTVILLE 29.32N 100.31W
01/15/2017 E1.00 INCH KINNEY TX EMERGENCY MNGR
QUARTER SIZE HAIL EAST OF BRACKETTVILLE MAINLY ON THE
SOUTH SIDE OF HIGHWAY 90
0752 PM HAIL 3 N MEDINA 29.84N 99.25W
01/15/2017 E1.00 INCH BANDERA TX TRAINED SPOTTER
NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL OBSERVED
0758 PM HAIL MEDINA 29.80N 99.25W
01/15/2017 M2.75 INCH BANDERA TX PUBLIC
PHOTO SHOWS BASEBALL SIZE HAIL NEXT TO A REAL BASEBALL
0800 PM HAIL MEDINA 29.80N 99.25W
01/15/2017 E1.75 INCH BANDERA TX TRAINED SPOTTER
0803 PM HAIL 1 S MEDINA 29.78N 99.25W
01/15/2017 E2.00 INCH BANDERA TX COCORAHS
LARGE HAIL PRODUCING CAR DENTS
0804 PM HAIL MEDINA 29.80N 99.25W
01/15/2017 E2.50 INCH BANDERA TX PUBLIC
LARGE HAIL BUSTED OUT A SKY LIGHT
0808 PM HAIL MEDINA 29.80N 99.25W
01/15/2017 E1.75 INCH BANDERA TX CO-OP OBSERVER
0815 PM HAIL 4 NNW BANDERA 29.78N 99.10W
01/15/2017 E1.25 INCH BANDERA TX COCORAHS
&&
EVENT NUMBER EWX1700015 EWX1700016 EWX1700017 EWX1700021 EWX1700018
EWX1700019 EWX1700020 EWX1700022 EWX1700023 EWX1700033 EWX1700024
EWX1700025 EWX1700026 EWX1700027 EWX1700034 EWX1700028 EWX1700030
EWX1700032 EWX1700029 EWX1700031
SBSLocal storm report, Jan 15, 9:43 PM CST, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
943 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2017
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 PM HAIL MEDINA 29.80N 99.25W
01/15/2017 M4.00 INCH BANDERA TX AMATEUR RADIO
PHOTO SHOWS A FOUR INCH DIAMETER HAILSTONE AS MEASURED
WITH A TAILORS TAPE MEASURE
&&
EVENT NUMBER EWX1700035
SBSSpecial weather statement, Jan 15, 9:43 PM CST, 39 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
943 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2017
TXZ186>189-203-204-160445-
Uvalde TX-Gillespie TX-Kerr TX-Medina TX-Bandera TX-Kendall TX-
943 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MEDINA...BANDERA...SOUTHEASTERN
KERR...UVALDE...SOUTH CENTRAL GILLESPIE AND WESTERN KENDALL COUNTIES
UNTIL 1045 PM CST...
At 943 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles northeast of Fredericksburg to near
Blewett. Movement was east at 30 mph.
Dime size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Medina, Kerrville, Uvalde, Fredericksburg, Hondo, Devine,
Castroville, Comfort, Bandera, Tarpley, Sabinal, Natalia, Camp Verde,
D'Hanis, Bandera Falls, Noonan, Quihi, Concan, Dunlay and Rocky Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
A tornado watch remains in effect until midnight CST for south
central Texas.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for
south central Texas.
LAT...LON 2913 9886 2910 10011 2917 10011 2963 9965
2963 9960 2967 9960 3036 9890 3036 9876
TIME...MOT...LOC 0343Z 267DEG 24KT 3034 9881 2913 10001Local storm report, Jan 15, 9:56 PM CST, 26 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 6:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 48 min |
| Jan 15, 6:21 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 39 min |
| Jan 15, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 66 min |
| Jan 15, 6:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 60 min |
| Jan 15, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 48 min |
| Jan 15, 6:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kimble | 32 min |
| Jan 15, 6:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 42 min |
| Jan 15, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 28 min |
| Jan 15, 7:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 67 min |
| Jan 15, 7:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 47 min |
| Jan 15, 7:17 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 43 min |
| Jan 15, 7:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kerr | 42 min |
| Jan 15, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 29 min |
| Jan 15, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 27 min |
| Jan 15, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 46 min |
| Jan 15, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 46 min |
| Jan 15, 8:16 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kerr, Real, Uvalde | 44 min |
| Jan 15, 8:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kendall | 41 min |
| Jan 15, 8:36 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Jan 15, 8:56 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, Uvalde | 49 min |
| Jan 15, 8:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 46 min |
| Jan 15, 9:11 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Jan 15, 9:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kendall | 33 min |
| Jan 15, 9:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera, Medina, Uvalde | 62 min |
| Jan 15, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Kendall | 46 min |
| Jan 15, 9:52 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jan 15, 10:25 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar | 50 min |
| Jan 15, 11:07 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Hays, Travis | 53 min |
| Jan 15, 11:16 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 29 min |
| Jan 15, 11:21 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jan 15, 11:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar | 45 min |
| Jan 15, 11:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 30 min |
| Jan 16, 12:07 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 38 min |
| Jan 16, 12:32 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Comal, Hays | 3 hr |
| Jan 16, 1:04 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
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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.