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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 23, 2021Medina County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2021, 1:19 AM CDT for Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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: Mar 23, 2021, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2021, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

County Medina County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 1091 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1422 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

As transmitted.

720 
WWUS84 KEWX 230619
SPSEWX

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
119 AM CDT Tue Mar 23 2021
 
TXZ203-204-219-230700-
Frio TX-Uvalde TX-Medina TX-
119 AM CDT Tue Mar 23 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN MEDINA...SOUTHEASTERN
UVALDE AND NORTH CENTRAL FRIO COUNTIES UNTIL 200 AM CDT...

At 119 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Sabinal, or 18 miles east of Uvalde, moving east at 40 mph.

Nickel size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Hondo, Sabinal, Yancey, Biry and D'Hanis. 

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 400 AM CDT for
south central Texas.

LAT...LON 2920 9972 2942 9945 2929 9893 2904 9909
TIME...MOT...LOC 0619Z 283DEG 33KT 2928 9949 

$$

EW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	58 min
Mar 22, 9:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Llano	43 min
Mar 22, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano, Williamson	61 min
Mar 22, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano	59 min
Mar 22, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Williamson	62 min
Mar 22, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Blanco, Comal, Kendall, Kerr	55 min
Mar 22, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Hays, Travis	64 min
Mar 22, 10:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Williamson	27 min
Mar 22, 10:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	41 min
Mar 22, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	41 min
Mar 22, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal, Hays, Kendall	48 min
Mar 22, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	58 min
Mar 22, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Medina, Real, Uvalde	59 min
Mar 22, 11:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Kendall, Kerr	41 min
Mar 22, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Medina	61 min
Mar 22, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop	65 min
Mar 23, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lee	65 min
Mar 23, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina, Uvalde	65 min
Mar 23, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall and 1 more	55 min
Mar 23, 1:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	24 min
Mar 23, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina and 1 more	62 min
Mar 23, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays and 1 more	64 min
Mar 23, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina	34 min
Mar 23, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Guadalupe	32 min
Mar 23, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson	26 min
Mar 23, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Lavaca and 1 more	59 min
Mar 23, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Lavaca	33 min
Mar 23, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	47 min
Mar 23, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	38 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.