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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 22, 2026Edwards County, Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2026, 6:51 PM CDT for Edwards County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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 22, 2026, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2026, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Edwards County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -353 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 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 22, 6:24 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:24 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 5:52 PM CDT, 59 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 21, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop, Travis, Williamson	57 min
May 21, 7:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
May 21, 7:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Kerr, Real	3 hr
May 21, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	66 min
May 21, 8:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	36 min
May 21, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera	45 min
May 21, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	40 min
May 21, 9:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar	3 hr
May 21, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Comal	65 min
May 21, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	43 min
May 22, 12:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	56 min
May 22, 1:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	48 min
May 22, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	68 min
May 22, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	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.