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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 16, 2023Uvalde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2023, 1:19 AM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 16, 2023, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 2023, 1:42 AM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Uvalde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 298 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2023-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1944 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2023-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
1944 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 8:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXVal Verde55 min
Sep 15, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde33 min
Sep 15, 9:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXVal Verde57 min
Sep 15, 10:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXFrio26 min
Sep 15, 11:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXUvalde34 min
Sep 16, 12:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXReal34 min
Sep 16, 12:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXUvalde23 min
Sep 16, 1:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXUvalde34 min
Sep 16, 9:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBurnet, Llano50 min
Sep 16, 10:25 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBurnet50 min
Sep 16, 10:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBlanco, Llano44 min
Sep 16, 10:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Williamson52 min
Sep 16, 11:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBlanco43 min
Sep 16, 11:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXWilliamson31 min
Sep 16, 12:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBastrop, Caldwell, Lee48 min
Sep 16, 1:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXGuadalupe44 min
Sep 16, 1:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXFayette, Lee46 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.