Near record high temperatures and breezy winds led to favorable conditions for the spread of wildfires. The Turkey Bottom Rd.
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Near record high temperatures and breezy winds led to favorable conditions for the spread of wildfires. The Turkey Bottom Rd. Fire northeast of Hochheim burned 303 acres.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Feb 11, 7:31 AM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 731 AM CST Sat Feb 11 2017 .UPDATE... All grid, text, and graphic forecasts were just updated, the primary change being the addition of a Dense Fog Advisory for the Edwards Plateau and Winter Garden areas through 10 am. Based on climatology and recent fog events, the dense fog is likely to last through 10 am, then slowly dissipate by noon. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 554 AM CST Sat Feb 11 2017/ AVIATION... /12Z TAFs/ Fog developing along and west of Highway 281 will continue to shift west as higher dew points spread inland. Along and east of Hwy 281, less fog is noted with mainly ifr and low mvfr cigs. Expect to see some spotty half mile vsbys around SAT/SSF in the first couple hours with ifr conditions expected to take over later in the morning. Late morning winds should mix westerlies to the surface with dry SSW surface winds helping to dissipate the low clouds for the afternoon/evening. Late evening low cloud formation should spread into the I-35 terminals close to midnight with more patchy dense fog possible. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 430 AM CST Sat Feb 11 2017/ SHORT TERM (Today through Sunday)... Stratus and patchy/areas of fog, some locally dense south and west of San Antonio, are slowly spreading west early this morning. A west to southwest flow aloft above the surface in combination with solar heating will allow the stratus and fog to mix out later this morning into afternoon. This flow will result in record high temperatures for today the 11th and are mentioned in the climate section below. Expect stratus again tonight. A pattern change begins on Sunday. An upper level trough moving east across the northern States will force a cold front into South Central Texas while an upper level low drops southeast along the California Coast to Baja California Norte. There are differences among the models with respect to location of the front. The Hi-Res models bring it to the southern border of our CWA with WFO CRP while the larger scale models keep it a little further to the north. Will go closer to the Hi-Res models and their further south depiction. Moisture depth and convergence are lacking along the front and have no POPs for Sunday. However, cannot rule out an isolated shower or two with its passage. LONG TERM (Sunday Night through Friday)... Models have come into somewhat better agreement compared to the last several days of runs, although some differences are still noted for early to middle of next week. The upper level low drifts to the east to near El Paso on Monday while a surface low develops over the lower Rio Grande Valley with a trough extending north into the Edwards Plateau bringing the front back north into South Central Texas. The upper level low slowly weakens and opens up as it moves across Western Texas on Tuesday while the surface trough moves east across South Central Texas. Upward forcing strengthens leading to showers mainly along the Rio Grande Sunday night. As the weather system moves east, showers and thunderstorms will develop into a band or clusters and drift to the east across our area on Monday into Tuesday. The slow movement of the system and deeper moisture due to southeasterly lower level flow off the Gulf of Mexico and southwesterly flow aloft from the Pacific with PWs possibly as high as 1.5 inches could result in heavy rain Monday night across the west and Tuesday across the east with rainfall totals of 2 to 3 inches possible. The former upper level low will shear on Tuesday night into Wednesday as it moves east of our area taking the showers and thunderstorms with it. Fair weather is expected for the remainder of the week. CLIMATE... Record High Temperatures for today, February 11th: Austin Camp Mabry..83 set in 2016 and 1976 Austin Bergstrom...81 set in 1976 Del Rio............87 set in 1976 San Antonio........84 set in 1922 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Austin Camp Mabry 85 65 75 53 64 / - - 10 20 30 Austin Bergstrom Intl Airport 85 64 75 54 65 / - - 10 20 30 New Braunfels Muni Airport 86 64 77 55 66 / - - 10 20 30 Burnet Muni Airport 86 62 69 49 58 / - - 10 20 30 Del Rio Intl Airport 88 61 79 54 60 / 0 0 - 50 70 Georgetown Muni Airport 84 63 71 50 60 / - - 10 20 30 Hondo Muni Airport 87 62 80 55 67 / - 0 - 30 40 San Marcos Muni Airport 85 64 76 54 65 / - - 10 20 30 La Grange - Fayette Regional 84 67 78 58 68 / - - 20 20 20 San Antonio Intl Airport 86 64 78 55 65 / - - 10 20 40 Stinson Muni Airport 88 65 80 57 67 / - - 10 20 40 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Dense Fog Advisory until 10 AM CST this morning for the following counties: Bandera...Dimmit...Edwards...Frio...Kerr...Medina... Real...Uvalde...Zavala. && Mesoscale/Aviation...Hampshire Synoptic/Grids...26 Public Service/Data Collection...Treadway
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 715 AM CST Sat Feb 11 2017 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-121315- 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- 715 AM CST Sat Feb 11 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas.. .DAY ONE...Today And Tonight. Areas of dense fog is possible for areas along and west of Highway 281 through the late morning hours. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Monday night into Tuesday, an upper level disturbance will interact with a cold front to bring a potential for heavy rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches. The heavy rain threat will be mainly west of Highway 281 Monday night and mainly along and east of Highway 281 Tuesday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Near record high temperatures and breezy winds led to favorable conditions for the spread of wildfires. The Turkey Bottom Rd. Fire northeast of Hochheim burned 303 acres.
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