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Special Weather Statement, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

February 14, 2026Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this special weather statement at Feb 14, 2026, 8:21 AM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 14, 2026, 8:21 AM CST (14:21 UTC)
Expired: Feb 14, 2026, 9:00 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 40

County Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Feb 14, 5:05 AM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 5:05 AM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 14, 8:21 AM CST, 0 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
Feb 14, 9:20 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Val Verde	40 min
Feb 14, 1:21 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	39 min
Feb 14, 1:50 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	40 min
Feb 14, 2:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	51 min
Feb 14, 2:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Zavala	15 min
Feb 14, 4:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Karnes	29 min
Feb 14, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes	38 min
Feb 14, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	38 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.