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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 8, 2025Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2025, 1:58 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 77 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: May 8, 2025, 1:58 PM CDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2025, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 77 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 1138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 May 8, 12:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 12:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 1:47 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
147 PM CDT Thu May 8 2025

TXZ183-081930-
Val Verde TX-
147 PM CDT Thu May 8 2025

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Val
Verde County through 230 PM CDT...

At 146 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 13
miles northwest of Pumpville, or 17 miles east of Dryden, moving east
at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Pumpville and Pandale.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 3029 10176 3029 10145 2988 10134 2994 10176
TIME...MOT...LOC 1846Z 266DEG 20KT 3012 10184

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

CJM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	35 min
May 8, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	43 min
May 8, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	54 min
May 8, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Maverick	54 min
May 8, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Maverick	55 min
May 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	58 min
May 8, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Maverick, Zavala	59 min
May 8, 4:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Maverick	82 min
May 8, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala	58 min
May 8, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Zavala	47 min
May 8, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit	60 min
May 8, 5:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Maverick	4 hr
May 8, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Maverick	43 min
May 8, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	38 min
May 8, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio	53 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.