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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2021, 2:13 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 5, 2021, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2021, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted.
664 WWUS84 KEWX 051913 SPSEWX Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 213 PM CDT Mon Jul 5 2021 TXZ183-184-052000- Val Verde TX-Edwards TX- 213 PM CDT Mon Jul 5 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN EDWARDS AND NORTHEASTERN VAL VERDE COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT... At 213 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 12 miles north of Loma Alta, moving south at 15 mph. Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Loma Alta, Carta Valley, Vinegarone, Devils River State Nat Area Del Norte and Us-277 Near The Sutton-Edwards County Line. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. && LAT...LON 3029 10110 3029 10058 2979 10052 2980 10110 TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 007DEG 13KT 3010 10080 $$ KCW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 2:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Hays | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 5:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Kendall | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Medina | 3 hr |
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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.