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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 12, 2025Uvalde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2025, 4:20 PM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 12, 2025, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2025, 4:46 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Uvalde County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 1833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1011 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 Jun 12, 3:27 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:27 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 12:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
1202 PM CDT Thu Jun 12 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0415 AM     Flash Flood      2 WSW Windcrest         29.51N 98.41W
06/12/2025                   Bexar              TX   Emergency Mngr

            *** 4 FATAL ***
            Training of thunderstorms with intense
            rainfall rates occurred across the region. A
            swath of 3-8 inches of rain was measured.
            Several vehicles were swept off the Loop 410
            access road into Beitel Creek. There are
            four confirmed fatalities in this creek and
            at least two other missing. Several other
            vehicles remain submerged at the time of
            this writing. Ten people were rescued in
            this creek and two others were able to get
            to safety on their own.

&&

JR

Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
238 PM CDT Thu Jun 12 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0415 AM     Flash Flood      2 WSW Windcrest         29.51N 98.41W
06/12/2025                   Bexar              TX   Emergency Mngr

            *** 4 FATAL ***
            Training of thunderstorms with intense
            rainfall rates occurred across the region. A
            swath of 3-8 inches of rain was measured.
            Several vehicles were swept off the Loop 410
            access road with a total of 13 vehicles
            ending up in Beitel Creek. There are four
            confirmed fatalities in this creek and at
            least two other missing. Ten people were
            rescued in this creek and two others were
            able to get to safety on their own.

&&

JR

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 3:33 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 4:16 PM CDT, 4 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
Jun 11, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Burnet	27 min
Jun 11, 8:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gillespie	40 min
Jun 11, 10:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	35 min
Jun 11, 10:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Gillespie and 3 more	4 hr
Jun 11, 10:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco	55 min
Jun 11, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Comal, Kendall	36 min
Jun 11, 11:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Medina	4 hr
Jun 11, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	34 min
Jun 11, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall, Medina	5 hr
Jun 11, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar	32 min
Jun 11, 11:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar	24 min
Jun 12, 12:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	31 min
Jun 12, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	45 min
Jun 12, 12:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	41 min
Jun 12, 12:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal, Hays	40 min
Jun 12, 12:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	4 hr
Jun 12, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Medina	62 min
Jun 12, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal, Hays, Travis	60 min
Jun 12, 1:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Gillespie, Kerr, Llano	118 min
Jun 12, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Comal, Hays	41 min
Jun 12, 1:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Hays	12 min
Jun 12, 1:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	4 hr
Jun 12, 1:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Fayette, Lavaca	60 min
Jun 12, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Lavaca	34 min
Jun 12, 1:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	24 hr
Jun 12, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe	57 min
Jun 12, 2:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bandera, Medina	5 hr
Jun 12, 2:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	4 hr
Jun 12, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal	50 min
Jun 12, 3:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	50 min
Jun 12, 3:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bexar, Medina	6 hr
Jun 12, 3:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe	5 hr
Jun 12, 3:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal	43 min
Jun 12, 3:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson	6 hr
Jun 12, 4:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Medina	9 hr
Jun 12, 4:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall	4 hr
Jun 12, 4:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	28 hr
Jun 12, 4:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	31 hr
Jun 12, 4:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Wilson	43 hr
Jun 12, 4:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gonzales	46 min
Jun 12, 5:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Wilson	41 min
Jun 12, 5:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	5 hr
Jun 12, 5:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Caldwell, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales and 4 more	5 hr
Jun 12, 5:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	DeWitt	41 min
Jun 12, 6:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca	5 hr
Jun 12, 6:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Medina	4 hr
Jun 12, 6:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Guadalupe	3 hr
Jun 12, 6:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	44 min
Jun 12, 7:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Medina	3 hr
Jun 12, 8:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe	6 hr
Jun 12, 8:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson	6 hr
Jun 12, 9:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Medina	3 hr
Jun 12, 9:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson	3 hr
Jun 12, 10:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Medina	3 hr
Jun 12, 1:36 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	23 hr
Jun 12, 2:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bandera	3 hr
Jun 12, 2:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson	2 hr
Jun 12, 2:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Karnes, Wilson	66 hr
Jun 12, 3:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Karnes, Wilson	29 hr
Jun 12, 3:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Karnes	43 hr
Jun 12, 3:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Real, Uvalde	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	42 min
Jun 12, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	44 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.