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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

February 2, 201116 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this winter storm watch at Feb 2, 2011, 3:10 PM CST for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 3, 2011, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 2, 2011, 3:10 PM CST (21:10 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 3, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 3, 2011, 7:33 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 306 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2011-02-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2011-02-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
592 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 winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 1, 5:52 PM CST, 21 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 5:52 PM CST, 21 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 2, 10:23 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryEWXBastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Kinney and 3 more25 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Texas, 2011Every winter storm watch in 2011

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.