A cold front pushed the dryline ahead of it into eastern sections of South Central Texas and caused thunderstorms. Some of these storms produced large hail.
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A cold front pushed the dryline ahead of it into eastern sections of South Central Texas and caused thunderstorms. Some of these storms produced large hail.
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 Apr 27, 2:21 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 321 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT)... DRY LINE IS PROGRESSING SLOWLY ACROSS THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON WITH SCATTERED CLOUDS AHEAD AND DIRECTLY BEHIND IT. CURRENT POSITION IS RIGHT ON I-35 AND THEN SOUTH ALONG HIGHWAY 37. SPECIAL SOUNDING AT COLLEGE STATION SHOWS GOOD CAP STILL IN PLACE SO AM NOT EXPECTING ANY CONVECTION OVER OUR CWA THE REST OF THE DAY. DESPITE THE CLOUDS MAY STILL GET SOME RECORD HIGH TEMPS THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS SHOW THE DRYLINE STALLING OVER THE SE CORNER OF THE CWA TONIGHT AND WILL LEAVE IN A SILENT 10 POP FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ALONG WITH MENTION OF PATCHY FOG. MONDAY WILL SEE A REPEAT OF DOWNSLOPING WESTERLY FLOW AT THE SURFACE AND MID LEVELS BRINGING IN HOT TEMPS AND LOW HUMIDITIES. && .LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)... STACKED UPPER LOW OVER THE CENTRAL U.S WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. THIS WILL PUSH A COOL FRONT THROUGH THE AREA ON TUE MORNING. THIS WILL BRING PLEASANT WEATHER THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK WITH HIGHS RIGHT AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL...AND LOW TEMPS SOME 10-15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. BOTH THE GFS AND EUROPEAN ARE SHOWING A WAVE COMING DOWN THE BACK SIDE OF THE TROUGH ON THURSDAY. THEY ARE TRYING TO DEVELOP RAINFALL WITH THIS BUT DONT SEE WHERE THE MOISTURE WILL COME FROM. MAY WIND UP BEING SOME CLOUDCOVER AND VIRGA. SO FOR NOW WILL LEAVE EXTENDED PERIODS DRY WITH NO MENTION OF RAIN. && FIRE WEATHER... RED FLAG WARNING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 9 PM TONIGHT. WINDS HAVE NOT BEEN VERY IMPRESSIVE TODAY AND MOST AREAS ARE STAYING JUST BELOW CRITERIA. WITH THE HOT TEMPS AND SOME SPOTS DROPPING BELOW THE 20 PERCENT RH...WILL KEEP IT RUNNING. WINDS WILL DROP OFF MONDAY SO JUST MENTION OF NEAR CRITICAL WITH VERY LOW HUMIDITIES EXPECTED. WILL CONTINUE WITH ADVERTISED FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR TUESDAY AS LOW HUMIDITIES WILL COMBINE WITH GUSTY NW WINDS BEHIND A COOL FRONT THAT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA TUE MORNING. SPEEDS ARE STRONGEST IN THE MORNING HOURS AND MAY NOT MATCH UP WITH THE LOWEST RH IN THE AFTERNOON. SO IT MIGHT WIND UP BEING MORE OF A NEAR CRITICAL DAY. WILL CONTINUE THE WATCH DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY. RH WILL REMAIN VERY LOW THE REST OF THE WEEK...WITH NEAR CRITICAL CONDITIONS EXTENDING PROBABLY THRU FRI. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 64 93 59 84 52 / - - 0 0 0 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 59 93 56 85 48 / - - 0 0 0 NEW BRAUNFELS MUNI AIRPORT 60 94 57 88 50 / - - 0 0 0 BURNET MUNI AIRPORT 58 91 55 78 50 / - - 0 0 0 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 61 94 59 88 54 / 0 - 0 0 0 GEORGETOWN MUNI AIRPORT 58 91 57 81 49 / - - 0 0 0 HONDO MUNI AIRPORT 60 99 59 92 51 / - - 0 0 0 SAN MARCOS MUNI AIRPORT 60 93 57 86 50 / - - 0 0 0 LA GRANGE - FAYETTE REGIONAL 64 92 58 84 52 / 10 - 0 0 0 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 63 94 58 88 52 / - - 0 0 0 STINSON MUNI AIRPORT 64 98 62 88 55 / - - 0 0 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BASTROP...BEXAR... BLANCO...BURNET...CALDWELL...COMAL...DE WITT...DIMMIT...EDWARDS... FAYETTE...FRIO...GILLESPIE...GONZALES...GUADALUPE...HAYS...KARNES... KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY...LAVACA...LEE...LLANO...MAVERICK... MEDINA...REAL...TRAVIS...UVALDE...VAL VERDE...WILLIAMSON...WILSON... ZAVALA. RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: BANDERA...BEXAR...BLANCO...BURNET...COMAL...DIMMIT... EDWARDS...FRIO...GILLESPIE...HAYS...KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY... LLANO...MAVERICK...MEDINA...REAL...TRAVIS...UVALDE...VAL VERDE... WILLIAMSON...ZAVALA. && MESOSCALE/AVIATION...99 SYNOPTIC/GRIDS...09 PUBLIC SERVICE/DATA COLLECTION...30
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 511 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-280300- 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- 511 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM UNTIL 9 PM FOR AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. A DRYLINE WILL PUSH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY BRINGING GUSTY WEST WINDS...HOT TEMPERATURES...AND VERY LOW HUMIDITIES. THE LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH THE RECENT LACK OF RAINFALL WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:18 UTC.
6 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A thunderstorm produced 1.25 inch hail that damaged a plastic patio cover.
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