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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 19, 201921 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this heat advisory at Jun 19, 2019, 4:02 AM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 19, 2019, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2019, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 19, 2019, 2:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 19, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 21 counties

Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 381 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 753 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
753 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1883 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXEdwards64 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Texas, 2019Every heat advisory in 2019

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.