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Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

January 31, 20164 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this fire weather watch at Jan 31, 2016, 9:23 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 1, 2016, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 31, 2016, 9:23 PM CST (03:23 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 1, 2016, 1:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 1, 2016, 5:43 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 316 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-02-01Temperature 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-02-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
3517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 1, 5:43 AM CSTFire Weather WatchEWXBandera, Blanco, Burnet, Frio, Gillespie, Kendall and 6 more21 hr
Feb 1, 5:43 AM CSTRed Flag WarningEWXDimmit, Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde12 hr
Feb 1, 5:43 AM CSTRed Flag WarningEWXBandera, Blanco, Burnet, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio and 11 more36 hr
Feb 1, 7:40 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryEWXAtascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Frio and 5 more2 hr

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.