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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 12, 20145 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this heat advisory at Jun 12, 2014, 12:05 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2014, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2014, 9:49 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Dimmit County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 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

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 65 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 2014-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1455 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2014-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-391 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2118 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 12, 7:55 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 7:55 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXKerr64 min
Jun 12, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr57 min
Jun 12, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Real45 min
Jun 12, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXEdwards, Kerr, Real48 min
Jun 12, 6:28 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXEdwards, Kerr, Real2 hr
Jun 12, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Edwards, Kerr, Real37 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Texas, 2014Every heat advisory in 2014

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.