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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 13, 20214 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2021, 3:11 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 64 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 13, 2021, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2021, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Hays County, TX, Travis County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2021-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 776 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2021-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
776 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

780 
WWUS84 KEWX 132011
SPSEWX

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
311 PM CDT Tue Jul 13 2021
 
TXZ171>173-189>194-206-208-132115-
Comal TX-Blanco TX-Caldwell TX-Bastrop TX-Williamson TX-Llano TX-
Hays TX-Kendall TX-Burnet TX-Lee TX-Travis TX-
311 PM CDT Tue Jul 13 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN WILLIAMSON...NORTH
CENTRAL CALDWELL...HAYS...TRAVIS...BLANCO...SOUTHEASTERN LLANO...
BASTROP...NORTHWESTERN LEE...NORTHEASTERN KENDALL...SOUTHWESTERN
BURNET AND NORTH CENTRAL COMAL COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT...

At 311 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Elgin to near Barton Creek to near Rocky
Creek. Movement was north at 20 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Kyle,
Taylor, Buda, Elgin, Bastrop, Marble Falls, Dripping Springs,
Wimberley, Blanco, Round Mountain, Anderson Mill, Windemere,
Tanglewood Forest, Austin Bergstrom Int Airport and Leander.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

&&

LAT...LON 3062 9722 3047 9716 3047 9713 2995 9719
      2998 9792 2988 9860 3051 9860 3066 9781
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 190DEG 18KT 3027 9736 3030 9790 3019 9852 

$$

MO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 1:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXComal, Guadalupe43 min
Jul 13, 3:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXLee44 min
Jul 13, 3:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXDimmit, Zavala56 min
Jul 13, 4:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXWilliamson55 min

Nearby

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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.