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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 13, 2021, 3:19 PM CDT for Kinney 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
- Oct 13, 2021, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2021, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 50
County Kinney County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 2273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted.
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WWUS84 KEWX 132019
SPSEWX
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
319 PM CDT Wed Oct 13 2021
TXZ202-217-132100-
Maverick TX-Kinney TX-
319 PM CDT Wed Oct 13 2021
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Kinney
and northwestern Maverick Counties through 400 PM CDT...
At 318 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles northeast of Quemado, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Brackettville, Spofford, Anacacho, Fort Clark Springs and Laughlin
AFB Aux Field.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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 2908 10067 2910 10067 2939 10046 2924 10027
2916 10016 2896 10053
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 226DEG 23KT 2906 10055
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Uvalde | 45 min |
| Oct 13, 4:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 42 min |
| Oct 13, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real, Uvalde | 57 min |
| Oct 13, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr | 53 min |
| Oct 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Llano and 1 more | 45 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.