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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this fire weather watch at Mar 14, 2014, 3:44 PM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 16, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2014, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2014, 4:34 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 368 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
- 2716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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.