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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

December 24, 200513 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 24, 2005, 5:17 AM CST for 13 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 24, 2005, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 24, 2005, 5:17 AM CST (11:17 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 24, 2005, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 24, 2005, 6:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-12-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-12-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS74 KEWX 241117
NPWEWX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
517 AM CST SAT DEC 24 2005

...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS TODAY...

.A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY WILL BRING
STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH
AROUND NOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH 6 PM.

TXZ171>173-186-188>194-206-208-241930-
/O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0003.051224T1800Z-051225T0000Z/
LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-KERR-GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-
BASTROP-LEE-COMAL-CALDWELL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LLANO...BURNET...GEORGETOWN...
KERRVILLE...FREDERICKSBURG...BOERNE...BLANCO...SAN MARCOS...
AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...NEW BRAUNFELS...LOCKHART
517 AM CST SAT DEC 24 2005

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS
AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON. 

NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH WILL DEVELOP
ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE
LATE AFTERNOON HOURS.

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.

$$

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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.