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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 19, 2023Kendall County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2023, 11:13 PM CDT for Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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: May 19, 2023, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2023, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 40

County Kendall County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 1482 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 19, 9:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 9:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 10:30 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
1030 PM CDT Fri May 19 2023

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-210330-
Llano-Burnet-Williamson-Val Verde-Edwards-Real-Kerr-Bandera-
Gillespie-Kendall-Blanco-Hays-Travis-Bastrop-Lee-Kinney-Uvalde-
Medina-Bexar-Comal-Guadalupe-Caldwell-Fayette-Maverick-Zavala-
Frio-Atascosa-Wilson-Karnes-Gonzales-De Witt-Lavaca-Dimmit-
1030 PM CDT Fri May 19 2023

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas..

.DAY ONE...Today And Tonight.

There is a level 2 out of 5 risk for strong to severe storms from
late this afternoon through tonight across the Edwards Plateau,
Hill Country, and I-35 corridor. Large hail and damaging wind
gusts are the main severe threats. In addition, locally heavy
rainfall and isolated flooding is possible. A Severe Thunderstorm
Watch is in effect until midnight for most of the locations
mentioned above.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

There is a level 1 out of 5 risk for strong to severe storms and
locally heavy rainfall across the Rio Grande Plains on Saturday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 7:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 8:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 9:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 10:40 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 11:13 PM CDT, 0 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
May 19, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano	68 min
May 19, 7:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Llano	4 hr
May 19, 8:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	38 min
May 19, 9:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	50 min
May 19, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie	50 min
May 19, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	50 min
May 19, 10:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Llano	4 hr
May 19, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	47 min
May 20, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	41 min
May 20, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr	48 min
May 20, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Kendall, Kerr	35 min
May 20, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	45 min
May 20, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	49 min
May 20, 12:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	49 min
May 20, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real, Uvalde	48 min
May 20, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	60 min
May 20, 1:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	41 min
May 20, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera	19 min
May 20, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Real, Uvalde	67 min
May 20, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	54 min
May 20, 1:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar	5 hr
May 20, 1:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Medina	3 hr
May 20, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Frio, Medina	43 min
May 20, 2:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Medina	5 hr
May 20, 2:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Uvalde	3 hr
May 20, 2:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	47 min
May 20, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	37 min
May 20, 3:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina	3 hr
May 20, 3:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kinney, Uvalde, Zavala	3 hr
May 20, 3:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Atascosa, Frio, Medina	3 hr
May 20, 4:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson	58 min
May 20, 4:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa	3 hr
May 20, 7:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	38 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.