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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 25, 2025Edwards County, Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2025, 11:03 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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 25, 2025, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2025, 11:32 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 288 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: 1978 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 25, 6:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 9:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 9:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 10:26 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 10:37 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 10:57 PM CDT, 6 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 25, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	49 min
May 25, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	54 min
May 25, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	40 min
May 25, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	15 min
May 25, 9:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	38 min
May 25, 10:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	64 min
May 25, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	68 min
May 25, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	48 min
May 25, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real, Uvalde	62 min
May 26, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera	51 min
May 26, 12:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	51 min
May 26, 3:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	49 min
May 26, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Maverick	66 min
May 26, 4:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	42 min
May 26, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala	33 min
May 26, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lee	45 min
May 26, 10:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Lee	41 min
May 26, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	62 min
May 26, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Llano	43 min
May 26, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	53 min
May 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Gillespie, Llano	44 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Gillespie	46 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.