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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2025, 9:44 PM CDT for Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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 17, 2025, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2025, 10:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Maverick County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 400 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 17, 6:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 6:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 51 min |
| May 17, 10:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 36 min |
| May 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 16 min |
| May 18, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 29 min |
| May 18, 12:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Llano | 40 min |
| May 18, 1:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Burnet | 52 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.