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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

April 23, 2025Frio County, Uvalde County, Zavala County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2025, 2:11 AM CDT for Frio County, Uvalde County, Zavala County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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: Apr 23, 2025, 2:11 AM CDT (07:11 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Destructive
Hail: 4.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Frio County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 23, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1379 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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 Apr 23, 1:40 AM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 1:40 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 12:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 12:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 12:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 1:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 1:11 AM CDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 1:45 AM CDT, 26 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
Apr 22, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	41 min
Apr 22, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Travis	46 min
Apr 22, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	36 min
Apr 22, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	52 min
Apr 22, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	23 min
Apr 22, 8:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Williamson	27 min
Apr 22, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	34 min
Apr 22, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	24 min
Apr 22, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	39 min
Apr 22, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick	39 min
Apr 22, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit	33 min
Apr 22, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	39 min
Apr 22, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	54 min
Apr 23, 12:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kerr, Real	54 min
Apr 23, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	48 min
Apr 23, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	38 min
Apr 23, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real, Uvalde	65 min
Apr 23, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Gillespie, Kendall, Real	45 min
Apr 23, 1:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	49 min
Apr 23, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	43 min
Apr 23, 1:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Llano	45 min
Apr 23, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays and 4 more	49 min
Apr 23, 3:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	48 min
Apr 23, 3:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Frio	65 min
Apr 23, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	31 min
Apr 23, 7:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Fayette	3 hr

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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.