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Excessive Heat Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

August 19, 202423 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 19, 2024, 1:35 PM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 20, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 32 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
Aug 19, 2024, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 20, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 21, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
32 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 23 counties

Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Medina County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 19, 12:38 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 12:38 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 1:35 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryEWXAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more3 days

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Texas, 2024Every excessive heat warning in 2024

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.