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Excessive Heat Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 5, 20244 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 5, 2024, 2:33 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 5, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2024, 2:33 AM CDT (07:33 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 5, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 5, 2024, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Frio County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:35 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-06-05Temperature 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-3.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jun 5, 12:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 12:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 2:33 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryEWXBexar, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt, Dimmit, Gonzales and 8 more17 hr
Jun 5, 9:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXLee51 min
Jun 5, 9:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXBastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Lee52 min
Jun 5, 10:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXCaldwell, Guadalupe45 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde67 min
Jun 5, 5:46 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXVal Verde119 min
Jun 5, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards, Val Verde66 min
Jun 5, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards45 min

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.