A thunderstorm produced isolated wind damage in Caldwell County.
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A thunderstorm produced isolated wind damage in Caldwell County.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 26, 2:55 PM CST, 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 355 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2008 .DISCUSSION... THE ATMOSPHERE AT 12Z WAS SIMILAR TO YESTERDAYS...BUT WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER PWATS...ROUGHLY 1.7-2.0 INCHES ACROSS OUR AREA. THE 12Z MODEL SOLUTIONS SHOW VERY LITTLE CHANGE IN OUR ATMOSPHERE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...WITH A LIGHT FLOW ALOFT (SURFACE TO 500MB) AND GENERAL WEAKNESS IN THE PRESSURE HEIGHT FIELDS. THE 12Z GFS AND TO A LESSER-EXTENT THE 18Z NAM12...SHOW TROPICAL MOISTURE CREEPING UP THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AS EARLY AS TOMORROW...BUT DEFINITELY BY THURSDAY. THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE 12Z GFS PWAT FORECAST OF GREATER THAN 2 INCHES OVER OUR WESTERN-MOST COUNTIES BY LATE WEDNESDAY. SO...OUR POPS WILL BE HIGHER FOR THE WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY PERIODS ACROSS OUR WESTERN-MOST AREAS. DAYTIME HEATING WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN DRIVER OF CONVECTION THROUGH THE WEEKEND. ALL EYES ON HURRICANE GUSTAV...WHICH IS FORECAST TO MOVE WNW INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO OVER THE WEEKEND...LIKELY AS A MAJOR HURRICANE. THE 12Z GFS SOLUTION DID NOT RESOLVE GUSTAV AS WELL AS THE 12Z ECMWF...WHICH SHOWS GUSTAV MOVING NW TOWARD THE TX COAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. IF THIS SCENARIO PANS-OUT...THEN OUR HIGH TEMPERATURE FORECAST IS LIKELY 5-10 DEGREES TOO LOW FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY GIVEN THE STRONG SUBSIDENCE THAT CAN BE EXPECTED ON THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF STRONG TROPICAL CYCLONES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 74 95 75 96 75 / 40 10 10 20 20 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 72 95 73 95 72 / 30 10 10 20 20 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 73 93 75 92 75 / 20 30 30 50 50 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 74 94 75 93 74 / 30 20 20 30 30 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 11/25
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 509 AM CDT TUE AUG 26 2008 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-271015- LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 509 AM CDT TUE AUG 26 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:16 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The metal roof on a storage unit was damaged along with some damage to brick walls.
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