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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 323, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 25, 2023Edwards County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2023, 6:09 AM CDT for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 25, 2023, 6:09 AM CDT (11:09 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2023, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Edwards County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 25, 2:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 2:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 25, 4:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 25, 2:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 25, 3:12 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 25, 3:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 25, 3:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 25, 4:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 24, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	40 min
Sep 24, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco	61 min
Sep 24, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	54 min
Sep 24, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	41 min
Sep 24, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	66 min
Sep 24, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	65 min
Sep 24, 8:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Gillespie	5 hr
Sep 24, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	65 min
Sep 24, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Travis, Williamson	65 min
Sep 24, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	61 min
Sep 24, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr	44 min
Sep 24, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Burnet	23 min
Sep 24, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis	65 min
Sep 24, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	44 min
Sep 24, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lee	40 min
Sep 24, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	48 min
Sep 24, 10:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	46 min
Sep 24, 10:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	42 min
Sep 24, 10:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop	46 min
Sep 24, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Llano	47 min
Sep 24, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	50 min
Sep 24, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	44 min
Sep 24, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Kerr	56 min
Sep 25, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	44 min
Sep 25, 1:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Gillespie	4 hr
Sep 25, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	60 min
Sep 25, 1:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kerr	5 hr
Sep 25, 1:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	33 min
Sep 25, 2:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	43 min
Sep 25, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera	57 min
Sep 25, 3:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	33 min
Sep 25, 3:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	48 min
Sep 25, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	47 min
Sep 25, 4:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	27 min
Sep 25, 4:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kimble	41 min
Sep 25, 6:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	26 min
Sep 25, 7:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kerr, Real	39 min
Sep 25, 7:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	47 min
Sep 25, 7:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Kerr, Real	3 hr
Sep 25, 8:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	41 min
Sep 25, 8:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	39 min
Sep 25, 8:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	39 min
Sep 25, 8:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	46 min
Sep 25, 9:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	39 min
Sep 25, 11:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards	4 hr
Sep 25, 11:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	39 min
Sep 25, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Val Verde	21 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.