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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, 11:45 PM CST for Bexar County, Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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, 11:45 PM CST (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2017, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Bexar County, TX, Comal County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 10:17 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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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.
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Special weather statement, Jan 15, 11:07 PM CST, 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 10:22 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Hays | 38 min |
| 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 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.