Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
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.
- 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
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. $$
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.