Alert archive / Texas / Fire Weather Watches in 2012
Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this fire weather watch at Dec 18, 2012, 3:44 PM CST for Edwards County, Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 19, 2012, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 2012, 3:44 PM CST (21:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 19, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2012, 4:24 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.