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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2024, 2:28 AM CDT for Atascosa County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Mar 17, 2024, 2:28 AM CDT (07:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2024, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Atascosa County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 642 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1319 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Mar 17, 1:47 AM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 1:47 AM CDT, 41 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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| Mar 16, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Maverick | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 11:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Frio | 48 min |
| Mar 17, 12:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Frio | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa | 39 min |
| Mar 17, 7:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 9:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Comal | 23 min |
| Mar 17, 10:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 10:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Comal | 32 min |
| Mar 17, 11:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Comal | 41 min |
| Mar 17, 12:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 1:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 2:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 24 min |
| Mar 17, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 36 min |
| Mar 17, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 42 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.