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Fire Weather Watch 8, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this fire weather watch at Apr 25, 2011, 5:10 AM CDT for 33 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 27, 2011, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2011, 5:10 AM CDT (10:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 27, 2011, 9:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2011, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 33 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 372 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 5:10 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall and 9 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:36 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal and 17 more | 28 hr |
Nearby
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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.