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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 18, 2018, 2:55 PM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 19, 2018, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2018, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 19, 2018, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2018, 5:44 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Lee County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Mar 18, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 511 AM CDT Sun Mar 18 2018 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-191015- Llano-Burnet-Williamson-Val Verde-Edwards-Real-Kerr-Bandera- Gillespie-Kendall-Blanco-Hays-Travis-Bastrop-Lee-Kinney-Uvalde- Medina-Bexar-Comal-Guadalupe-Caldwell-Fayette-Maverick-Zavala- Frio-Atascosa-Wilson-Karnes-Gonzales-De Witt-Lavaca-Dimmit- 511 AM CDT Sun Mar 18 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas.. .DAY ONE...Today And Tonight. Elevated to near-critical fire weather conditions are expected this afternoon into evening across portions of Rio Grande Plains and southern Edwards Plateau. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Critical fire weather conditions are expected on Monday across areas west of I-35. A Fire Weather Watch has been issued for Monday along and west of a Burnet to Castroville to Dilley line. Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly. Elevated to near critical fire weather conditions are expected on Monday for many areas along and east of the I-35 corridor. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 18, 9:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Caldwell | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 49 min |
| Mar 17, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 9:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 48 min |
| Mar 17, 9:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 44 min |
| Mar 18, 2:55 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 21 more | 28 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 18 min |
| Mar 18, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Lee | 52 min |
| Mar 18, 5:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Gonzales | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 6:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Gonzales | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 29 min |
| Mar 18, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 38 min |
| Mar 18, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Guadalupe | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee | 52 min |
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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.