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Cached lightning source details and text readings

Snow analysis — NOHRSC

Source-rendered snow depth and snow water equivalent for the lower 48. History changes this snow picture only; warnings and radar keep their own clocks.

Stored snow depth · footprint valid 2026-10-19 09:00:00 UTC, picture retrieved 2026-10-19 17:08:05.770 UTC.

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NOHRSC snow analysis for the lower 48; see the adjacent source legend and time qualification
NOAA/NWS/NOHRSC’s original picture and legend. No station or address value is inferred.

NOHRSC footprint times are metadata; pixel analysis time is not independently verified. Snow-depth pixels have previously differed from the footprint time. This is modeled/assimilated snow analysis, not a measurement at a place. Unshaded and no-data areas do not establish zero snow.

Snow pictures, retained history and source provenance

Change time or forecast product

Recorded weather · gaps are marked. Coverage begins with recording activation.

Live sources keep independent clocks.

Replay coverage and interpretation

Rolling target: 24 hours; cells: six hours. Radar: NOAA MRMS national overview, 8-minute tolerance. Satellite: original GOES GeoColor day/night picture, hourly sampling, 75-minute tolerance. No interpolation or latest-image fallback. Warning and source checks retain their own clocks. “Recorded by” is collector acquisition evidence, not exact browser publication history.

Current GLM density, velocity and specialist layers are hidden during replay. Snow uses retained footprint metadata with unverified pixel time. Forecast uses one pinned issuance/run and exact valid time.

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Radar-derived cells (1) · current

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  1. AMA / D0 · scan 2026-10-19T17:22:21Z · current
Station and river observations (148)

Surface source current; observed water-level source current. Each reading keeps its own time. Map markers show at most 500 stations and 500 gauges; the complete source directory is paginated.

Circle: surface station; square: water-level gauge. Filled: current reading and source; hollow: stale, unconfirmed or missing observation. Marker color is not a hazard category. Enable “Stations and gauges” in Layers to inspect them on the map.

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Surface station KHYI

unavailable · No observation in the latest cached source list. Retained readings below are historical; an absent gauge may have fallen below action stage or stopped reporting.

Station KHYI · -97.8664, 29.8958 (longitude, latitude).

Source checked 2026-10-19 17:15:05.477Z · current.

Station observations, not an address forecast or cyclone maximum wind. Maintenance-flagged, old and implausible reports are excluded by the existing parser; this is not independent NWS quality control.

Retained observations: 1; target 24 hours, at most 96 reports per station. Recording began 2026-10-17 06:15:07.108Z; oldest available reading 2026-10-18 17:56:00 UTC.

Observed sustained wind at KHYI (kt)Dots are retained observations. Lines break for missing fields, long intervals or changed station location or units. 0 recorded discontinuities. Dashed lines, when present, are the separately issued NWS forecast.1-1kt10-18 17:56Z10-18 18:56Z2026-10-18 17:56:00 UTC · 0 kt
Observed sustained wind · 1 retained observations; 0 discontinuities. Lines join reported values only; missing intervals are not interpolated.
Temperature, dew point and pressure trends
Observed temperature at KHYI (°C)Dots are retained observations. Lines break for missing fields, long intervals or changed station location or units. 0 recorded discontinuities. Dashed lines, when present, are the separately issued NWS forecast.22.120.1°C10-18 17:56Z10-18 18:56Z2026-10-18 17:56:00 UTC · 21.1 °C
Observed temperature · 1 retained observations; 0 discontinuities. Lines join reported values only; missing intervals are not interpolated.
Observed dew point at KHYI (°C)Dots are retained observations. Lines break for missing fields, long intervals or changed station location or units. 0 recorded discontinuities. Dashed lines, when present, are the separately issued NWS forecast.5.43.4°C10-18 17:56Z10-18 18:56Z2026-10-18 17:56:00 UTC · 4.4 °C
Observed dew point · 1 retained observations; 0 discontinuities. Lines join reported values only; missing intervals are not interpolated.
Observed sea-level pressure at KHYI (mb)Dots are retained observations. Lines break for missing fields, long intervals or changed station location or units. 0 recorded discontinuities. Dashed lines, when present, are the separately issued NWS forecast.1028.91026.9mb10-18 17:56Z10-18 18:56Z2026-10-18 17:56:00 UTC · 1027.9 mb
Observed sea-level pressure · 1 retained observations; 0 discontinuities. Lines join reported values only; missing intervals are not interpolated.
Observed reports as a table (1)
Observed (UTC)Wind / gust (kt)From (° true)Temperature / dew point (°C)Pressure (mb)Visibility (mi)
2026-10-18 17:56:00 UTC0 / Not reportedCalm21.1 / 4.41027.910 or more
Capture times, quality and provenance

Each report keeps its observation time, first capture of this version, and the SHA-256 of the source bulk body. Corrections at the same observation time replace that point and are marked; unrelated bulk-file changes do not freshen a report.

  • Observed 2026-10-18 17:56:00 UTC, captured 2026-10-18 18:00:07.738Z; source body SHA-256 f6b726caa8279ba86e076548fb62ee7a0309bdfaba00092834579914be370515.

Values use the decoded station report. Null means not reported, never zero. Gust is kept separate from sustained wind.

Observation source page · Cached readings as JSON · Official source

Recent changes

Recording coverage and limits
  • warnings: retained from 2026-10-18T17:29:03.227Z through 2026-10-19T17:28:03.639Z
  • outlooks: retained from 2026-10-18T17:29:03.227Z through 2026-10-19T17:25:06.850Z
  • hydro: retained from 2026-10-18T17:29:03.227Z through 2026-10-19T17:25:08.524Z
  • analysis: retained from 2026-10-18T17:29:03.227Z through 2026-10-19T17:15:08.664Z
  • winter: retained from 2026-10-18T17:29:03.227Z through 2026-10-19T17:23:05.510Z

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About this monitored event

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Analysis

Current cached context, independently dated. Regional reference: TX; a reference within a wider monitoring area does not replace the complete warning geography. This section remains separate from the historical replay cursor and official cyclone forecast. Use Forecast to pin a retained model package.

Soundings: what weather balloons measured

SPC’s skew-T diagram and hodograph of the sounding at Midland, TX (MAF), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Midland, TX (MAF), for (17 h 29 min ago). SPC’s graphic; the values in its panels (CAPE, shear, the indices) are SPC’s computations from these levels. Data: NOAA/SPC.

A balloon launched about an hour before the time named, measuring as it rose and drifted with the wind: the atmosphere above one place, at one time. Model soundings, which are forecasts, are not shown here.

The levels this sounding was drawn from (60)
Midland, TX (MAF): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
922 mb872 m19.81.8170° 8 kt
910 mb983 m18.51.6170° 12 kt
900 mb1077 m17.41.5165° 11 kt
887 mb1200 m16.01.3170° 12 kt
856 mb1501 m12.50.9160° 15 kt
850 mb1561 m11.80.8160° 13 kt
838 mb1680 m10.8-1.1165° 14 kt
826 mb1800 m11.1-7.4150° 16 kt
816 mb1902 m12.4-11.6—
803 mb2036 m12.03.0—
784 mb2237 m12.4-0.6—
771 mb2377 m12.24.2—
760 mb2498 m11.82.8205° 5 kt
740 mb2721 m11.00.1220° 12 kt
722 mb2926 m10.1-2.0210° 13 kt
708 mb3089 m9.4-3.6—
700 mb3183 m9.4-5.6215° 11 kt
676 mb3470 m7.3-3.4275° 12 kt
659 mb3679 m5.7-1.8285° 18 kt
641 mb3907 m4.00.0—
618 mb4204 m2.7-2.7270° 10 kt
604 mb4390 m2.2-4.8—
593 mb4538 m1.1-4.2285° 9 kt
578 mb4744 m0.1-6.0295° 10 kt
558 mb5026 m-1.7-7.7—
542 mb5258 m-3.1-10.1—
501 mb5874 m-8.9-13.1255° 21 kt
500 mb5890 m-9.1-13.2255° 21 kt
480 mb6202 m-12.2-14.8240° 18 kt
464 mb6462 m-14.7-16.1—
454 mb6627 m-14.3-24.9235° 21 kt
443 mb6812 m-13.8-34.5245° 21 kt
429 mb7054 m-15.3-37.8250° 26 kt
416 mb7285 m-16.8-41.0245° 29 kt
404 mb7506 m-18.2-44.0255° 28 kt
400 mb7580 m-18.7-44.7255° 29 kt
381 mb7939 m-21.8-41.2245° 26 kt
369 mb8174 m-23.8-37.7250° 27 kt
352 mb8518 m-26.4-40.1250° 30 kt
341 mb8747 m-26.6-46.3255° 32 kt
321 mb9179 m-29.8-50.0255° 35 kt
311 mb9404 m-31.3-51.0250° 34 kt
300 mb9660 m-33.1-52.1245° 33 kt
284 mb10042 m-34.5-53.5—
272 mb10342 m-36.1-56.1—
255 mb10785 m-39.1-57.5260° 32 kt
250 mb10920 m-40.1-58.1255° 31 kt
239 mb11225 m-42.1-59.9260° 37 kt
227 mb11572 m-44.0-61.0260° 37 kt
216 mb11903 m-46.1-63.1260° 30 kt
200 mb12410 m-49.9-65.9260° 32 kt
184 mb12951 m-54.1-69.1270° 31 kt
171 mb13418 m-57.2-70.5275° 30 kt
156 mb13996 m-60.8-72.9280° 34 kt
150 mb14240 m-62.3-74.3275° 27 kt
139 mb14704 m-65.0-75.9265° 30 kt
129 mb15159 m-67.6-77.4275° 28 kt
114 mb15892 m-71.6-80.7280° 31 kt
104 mb16432 m-74.7-82.7280° 25 kt
100 mb16660 m-74.7-82.7280° 24 kt
Every station with a sounding (76)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

Spotlight: SPC Day 1 outlook

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SPC Day 1 outlook

  • General Thunderstorms Risk highest in this area
  • Marginal Risk

SPC’s Day 1 categorical outlook, valid to , issued . SPC’s categories, as drawn. Data: NOAA/SPC.

Watches

No tornado or severe thunderstorm watch in force in this area.

SPC’s watches, by number, matched by the counties they list. Data: NOAA/SPC.

Mesoscale discussions

No mesoscale discussion reaches this area.

SPC’s mesoscale discussions whose outline reaches the area. Data: NOAA/SPC.

Storm ingredients

SPC’s hourly mesoanalysis, observed soundings and model guidance for the area, on the Analysis tab with its own clocks.

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Drawn by the Analysis tab’s own renderer. Data: NOAA/SPC, NOAA/NCEP.

Flash-flood risk, Day 1

  • Marginal

WPC’s excessive rainfall outlook, to , issued : a chance of flash flooding, in four categories. Data: NOAA/WPC.

River gauges in flood

0 major · 1 moderate · 0 minor · 2 at action stage

NWS’s gauges at flood stage or above in the area, worst first, each with its forecast hydrograph on Rain & rivers. Data: NOAA/NWPS.

Rain expected and rain that fell

WPC’s rain forecast and MRMS’s radar estimate of the rain that fell, on the Briefing’s map for the area.

Open Rain & rivers

Data: NOAA/WPC, NOAA/NSSL MRMS.

Radar

NOAA’s radar for the area, loaded by your browser as on the Radar page.

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What changed, last 60 minutes

since , when this server began watching this area

Nothing has changed since 17:27Z.

The products’ own words and times, and what is no longer in force since the last read. Never written by AI.

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Texas (NWS states: TX)
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