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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 24, 2024, 6:54 PM CST for Lee 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
- Dec 24, 2024, 6:54 PM CST (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2024, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Lee County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 1557 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 19.3
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 Dec 24, 6:51 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 6:51 PM CST, 3 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 229 PM CST Tue Dec 24 2024 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-252030- 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- 229 PM CST Tue Dec 24 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas.. .DAY ONE...Tonight. There is a level 1 to 2 of 5 risk of strong to severe storms this evening into tonight for areas along and east of I-35. Large hail and damaging winds are the primary threats. Heavy rain may lead to isolated flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There is another marginal risk of strong storms on Thursday. Otherwise, no hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 24, 6:40 PM CST, 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Dec 24, 6:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 50 min |
| Dec 24, 6:57 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop | 48 min |
| Dec 24, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 46 min |
| Dec 24, 7:17 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Caldwell | 43 min |
| Dec 24, 7:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales, Wilson | 67 min |
| Dec 24, 8:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 45 min |
| Dec 24, 8:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 43 min |
| Dec 24, 8:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 39 min |
| Dec 24, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and 1 more | 61 min |
| Dec 24, 8:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 27 min |
| Dec 24, 8:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 50 min |
| Dec 24, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 57 min |
| Dec 24, 9:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop | 47 min |
| Dec 24, 9:15 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 45 min |
| Dec 24, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 28 min |
| Dec 24, 9:26 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 68 min |
| Dec 24, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 60 min |
| Dec 24, 10:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 55 min |
| Dec 24, 10:06 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Gonzales | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 10:08 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 10:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 67 min |
| Dec 24, 10:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Gonzales | 51 min |
| Dec 24, 10:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 63 min |
| Dec 24, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Lavaca | 62 min |
| Dec 24, 10:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 28 min |
| Dec 24, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes | 63 min |
| Dec 24, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 65 min |
| Dec 24, 11:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 63 min |
| Dec 24, 11:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 29 min |
| Dec 24, 11:52 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Wilson | 38 min |
| Dec 24, 11:53 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 11:54 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 11:55 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Gonzales, Lavaca | 3 hr |
| Dec 25, 12:01 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Dec 25, 12:11 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop | 34 min |
| Dec 25, 12:14 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lavaca | 61 min |
| Dec 25, 12:25 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 50 min |
| Dec 25, 1:25 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 50 min |
| Dec 25, 2:14 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 16 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.