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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 23, 2025Caldwell County, Gonzales County, Guadalupe County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2025, 4:26 AM CDT for Caldwell County, Gonzales County, Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 23, 2025, 4:26 AM CDT (09:26 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2025, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Caldwell County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 306 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: 1180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2343 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 23, 1:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 1:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 23, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 2:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 3:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 3:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 3:52 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 4:17 AM CDT, 9 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 22, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	26 min
May 22, 7:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Llano	3 hr
May 22, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Llano	40 min
May 22, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis	53 min
May 22, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	30 min
May 22, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall	53 min
May 22, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall	21 min
May 22, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	46 min
May 22, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal, Kendall	31 min
May 22, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Kendall	42 min
May 22, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	57 min
May 22, 10:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kendall, Kerr	3 hr
May 22, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	15 min
May 22, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	61 min
May 23, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Llano	63 min
May 23, 12:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet, Llano	4 hr
May 23, 1:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall	66 min
May 23, 1:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	62 min
May 23, 1:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall, Travis	49 min
May 23, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Comal, Hays	36 min
May 23, 2:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	48 min
May 23, 2:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kendall, Kerr	3 hr
May 23, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	42 min
May 23, 2:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	25 min
May 23, 2:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	46 min
May 23, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	45 min
May 23, 3:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Comal	3 hr
May 23, 3:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson	36 min
May 23, 3:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Uvalde	20 min
May 23, 3:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson	38 min
May 23, 4:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	43 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.