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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 7, 2019, 8:49 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 56 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
- Apr 7, 2019, 8:49 AM CDT (13:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2019, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Lee County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 2894 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.4
- Supercell composite
- 17.7
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 Apr 7, 7:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 7:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 431 AM CDT Sun Apr 7 2019 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-080945- 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- 431 AM CDT Sun Apr 7 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas.. .DAY ONE...Rest of Tonight. A cluster of moderate to heavy showers and strong to severe thunderstorms are forecast to continue moving from southwest to northeast. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for the rest of the tonight period. Large hail and damaging wind gusts are the primary threats. Some locally heavy rainfall may also be possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. A complex of showers and thunderstorms is forecast to continue moving across the southern part of South Central Texas through late Sunday morning. Some storms could be strong to severe, with hail and damaging wind gusts. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for most of the southern counties through 9 AM Sunday. Locally heavy rainfall may also be possible. A Flash Flood Watch is in effect through Sunday afternoon for Bastrop, Blanco, Caldwell, Hays, Lee, Travis, and Williamson counties. Heavy rains that occurred Saturday could combine with an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain expected Sunday and lead to a flash flood threat. No hazardous weather is expected Monday through Wednesday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated.
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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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| Apr 6, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Comal | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 41 min |
| Apr 6, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 8:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Caldwell, Comal, Hays | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 10:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Hays | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 56 min |
| Apr 6, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee | 50 min |
| Apr 7, 12:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Caldwell | 35 min |
| Apr 7, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 3:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Maverick | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala | 63 min |
| Apr 7, 3:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala | 67 min |
| Apr 7, 4:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Uvalde | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kinney, Medina, Real, Uvalde | 58 min |
| Apr 7, 4:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 5:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Wilson | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Frio, Kerr, Medina and 1 more | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 5:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 6:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Karnes, Kendall, Wilson | 66 min |
| Apr 7, 6:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kendall | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall and 2 more | 67 min |
| Apr 7, 6:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa, Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt, Fayette and 6 more | 59 min |
| Apr 7, 6:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 6:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Lee, Travis, Williamson | 65 min |
| Apr 7, 7:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson | 54 min |
| Apr 7, 7:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Lee, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 9:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 9:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 10:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lavaca | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 11:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 25 min |
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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.