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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 5, 2017Hays County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2017, 4:47 PM CDT for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 5, 2017, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2017, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Hays County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 1436 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 Jun 5, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 6:02 AM CDT, 10 hours 45 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
602 AM CDT Mon Jun 5 2017

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-061115-
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-
602 AM CDT Mon Jun 5 2017

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas..

.DAY ONE...Today And Tonight.

Chances of showers and thunderstorms continue today and tonight
mainly along and east of Highway 83. Locally heavy rain causing
minor flooding is possible along with isolated strong storms
producing damaging wind gusts and large hail.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:28 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:47 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Jun 4, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lee	38 min
Jun 4, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	50 min
Jun 4, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal	43 min
Jun 4, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	41 min
Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	45 min
Jun 4, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera	51 min
Jun 4, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina	52 min
Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Medina	60 min
Jun 4, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde, Zavala	50 min
Jun 4, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Medina	58 min
Jun 4, 10:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	42 min
Jun 4, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr, Real	52 min
Jun 4, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	50 min
Jun 4, 11:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	38 min
Jun 5, 12:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	37 min
Jun 5, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Maverick	47 min
Jun 5, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Burnet	42 min
Jun 5, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	47 min
Jun 5, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis, Williamson	57 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Travis, Williamson	114 min
Jun 5, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	45 min
Jun 5, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gonzales	48 min
Jun 5, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Wilson	55 min
Jun 5, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Guadalupe	49 min
Jun 5, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gonzales	68 min
Jun 5, 6:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	58 min

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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.