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Dense Fog Advisory 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 6, 20215 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this dense fog advisory at Dec 6, 2021, 3:36 AM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 6, 2021, 3:36 AM CST (09:36 UTC)
Expired
Dec 6, 2021, 7:00 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Real County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 306 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 2021-12-06Temperature 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 2021-12-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.