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Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport, Texas

Small airport in Hopkins County, Texas

Air quality

The air at Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport

Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 59 miles off.

36Good
  • Ozone36Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
SLR
ICAO
KSLR
IATA
SLR
Field elevation
489 ft
Serves
Sulphur Springs
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
SLR
Wind now
From 340° at 14 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:55

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
01 / 195,001 ft75 ftConcrete10° / 190°12 mph head, on 017 mph from the left
01192,000 ftN340° 14 mph
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from Sulphur_Springs (SLR), Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

75 F at 10 PM; 88 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 71 F at its coolest, 7 AM.

Now
75F
10 PM
Highest
88F
4 PM
Lowest
71F
7 AM
Temperature and Dew point at Sulphur_Springs, temperature from 71.0 to 87.5, the latest 75.3; dew point from 60.9 to 71.4, the latest 66.4, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF60708090Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 66 F, the air 74% saturated; the humidity ran from 41% at 4 PM to 96% at 7 AM.

Dew point now
66F
10 PM
Humidity now
74%
Humidity, range
41 to 96%
Relative humidity at Sulphur_Springs, relative humidity from 41 to 96, the latest 74, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%406080100Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

15 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 15 mph, 10 PM, with a gust of 26 mph at 9 PM.

Now
15mph
from the north northwest
Strongest
15mph
10 PM
Highest gust
26mph
9 PM
Wind and Gust at Sulphur_Springs, wind from 0 to 15, the latest 15; gust from 16 to 26, the latest 22, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph0102030Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Sulphur_Springs, wind direction from 80 to 340, the latest 340, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°090180270360Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.13 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg higher than a day before.

Now
30.13inHg
10 PM
3 hours
+0.07inHg
rising
24 hours
+0.12inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Sulphur_Springs, pressure, altimeter from 30.00 to 30.13, the latest 30.13, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.0030.0530.1030.15Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

Visibility

10 miles or more every hour.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
10+mi
Hours under a mile
0
Visibility at Sulphur_Springs, visibility from 10.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.510Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 8 AM; a base was reported in 10 of the hours.

Lowest base now
-
Lowest in 24 hours
700ft
8 AM
Hours with a base reported
10
Lowest cloud base at Sulphur_Springs, lowest cloud base from 700 to 12,000, the latest 5,500, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft05,00010,00015,000Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMMVFRVFR

How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001

Precipitation

None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Wettest hour
-
Hours with some
0

How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002

Sulphur_Springs: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.

measured now2 instruments

Sulphur_SpringsSLR

At an airfield/0.1 mi away/489 ft/level with here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Sulphur SpringsSUST2

At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/502 ft/13 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Sulphur Springs 4.3 ETX-HPK-5

In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/482 ft/7 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

-

Snow on the ground

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