Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Sep 23, 2005, 3:40 PM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Sep 24, 2005, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2005, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2005, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 225 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KEWX 232040 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 340 PM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON SATURDAY... .HURRICANE RITA WILL MOVE ONSHORE SATURDAY MORNING IN THE VICINITY OF PORT ARTHUR TEXAS. THE CIRCULATION AROUND THE HURRICANE WILL RESULT IN STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. TXZ173-191>194-205>209-221>225-242100- /X.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0001.050924T1200Z-050924T2100Z/ WILLIAMSON-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL- FAYETTE-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGETOWN...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN... BASTROP...GIDDINGS...SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN... LOCKHART...LA GRANGE...FLORESVILLE...KARNES CITY...GONZALES... CUERO...HALLETTSVILLE 340 PM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 4 PM CDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 4 PM CDT SATURDAY. THE WIND ADVISORY INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BASTROP...BEXAR... CALDWELL...COMAL...DE WITT...FAYETTE...GONZALES...GUADALUPE...HAYS... KARNES...LAVACA...LEE...TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON...AND WILSON. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA AS HURRICANE RITA MOVES INLAND NEAR PORT ARTHUR TEXAS SATURDAY MORNING. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 26 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
Nearby
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.