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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2021, 3:16 PM CDT for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2021, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Lee County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 2924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
635
WWUS84 KEWX 132016
SPSEWX
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
316 PM CDT Tue Jul 13 2021
TXZ193-194-209-132100-
Bastrop TX-Fayette TX-Lee TX-
316 PM CDT Tue Jul 13 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN BASTROP...LEE AND
NORTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...
At 315 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Round Top to Circle D-KC Estates. Movement
was north at 20 mph.
Half inch hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Giddings, Smithville, Lexington, Dime Box, Round Top, Fedor, Paige,
Tanglewood, Lake Somerville State Park & Trailway, Carmine, Northrup,
Warrenton, Ledbetter, Waldeck, Loebau, Buescher State Park, Hills,
Lincoln, Nechanitz and Manheim.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 2994 9664 3001 9718 3044 9720 3053 9700
3050 9690 3046 9690 3046 9688 3043 9687
3043 9685 3039 9679 3032 9674 3032 9670
3025 9669 3024 9674 3020 9674 3016 9679
3014 9677 3017 9669 3015 9667
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 169DEG 17KT 3003 9676 3016 9722
$$
MOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Blanco, Hays, Travis | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 55 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.