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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 279, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

October 25, 20254 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2025, 4:40 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 50 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: Oct 25, 2025, 4:40 AM CDT (09:40 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 2025, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Atascosa County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 283 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: 1699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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 Oct 25, 1:41 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 1:41 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 25, 1:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 25, 3:45 AM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 25, 3:49 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 25, 4:16 AM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 25, 4:31 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 25, 4:37 AM CDT, 3 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
Oct 24, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	44 min
Oct 24, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Val Verde	67 min
Oct 24, 8:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	62 min
Oct 24, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	56 min
Oct 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Val Verde	3 hr
Oct 24, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	39 min
Oct 24, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	54 min
Oct 24, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kerr	53 min
Oct 24, 9:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet, Llano	3 hr
Oct 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde	59 min
Oct 24, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Kinney, Val Verde	62 min
Oct 24, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr	59 min
Oct 24, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera	50 min
Oct 24, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Kinney	45 min
Oct 24, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Guadalupe and 3 more	51 min
Oct 24, 11:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall	36 min
Oct 24, 11:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	49 min
Oct 25, 12:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	3 hr
Oct 25, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	51 min
Oct 25, 12:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis and 1 more	47 min
Oct 25, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis	49 min
Oct 25, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Val Verde	49 min
Oct 25, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Frio, Gonzales, Wilson	45 min
Oct 25, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	42 min
Oct 25, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette, Gonzales, Lee	50 min
Oct 25, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	48 min
Oct 25, 1:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, DeWitt, Frio, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca	46 min
Oct 25, 1:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	47 min
Oct 25, 3:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	3 hr
Oct 25, 4:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson	40 min
Oct 25, 5:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	40 min
Oct 25, 5:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Medina, Uvalde	3 hr
Oct 25, 9:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Medina	40 min
Oct 25, 9:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina	50 min
Oct 25, 10:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Medina, Uvalde	119 min
Oct 25, 10:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kendall, Kerr	18 min
Oct 25, 10:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kendall	46 min
Oct 25, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	31 min
Oct 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Burnet, Llano	39 min
Oct 25, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	38 min
Oct 25, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Burnet, Llano, Williamson	47 min
Oct 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet, Llano, Williamson	3 hr
Oct 25, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Burnet	61 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.