Alert archive / Texas / Heat Advisories in 2012
Heat Advisory 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this heat advisory at Aug 3, 2012, 3:42 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 3, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2012, 3:42 AM CDT (08:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 3, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 3:59 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 367 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
- 6216 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.