Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 17, 2006, 7:24 AM CST for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2006, 7:24 AM CST (13:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2006, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 24 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 171324 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 724 AM CST FRI FEB 17 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH NOON TODAY... .STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING IN WAKE OF A COLD FRONT NEAR THE COASTAL BEND EARLY THIS MORNING. TXZ173-183-191>194-202>209-217>225-228-171800- /O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0007.060217T1324Z-060217T1800Z/ WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE-MEDINA- BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO- ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGETOWN...DEL RIO...SAN MARCOS... AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...BRACKETTVILLE...UVALDE...HONDO... SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN...LOCKHART...LA GRANGE... EAGLE PASS...CRYSTAL CITY...PEARSALL...PLEASANTON...FLORESVILLE... KARNES CITY...GONZALES...CUERO...HALLETTSVILLE...CARRIZO SPRINGS 724 AM CST FRI FEB 17 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING...IN WAKE OF A COLD FRONT...NEAR THE COASTAL BEND EARLY THIS MORNING. SURFACE WINDS NEAR 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO BETWEEN 30 AND 40 IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH IS FORECAST FOR THIS AFTERNOON. 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 9:37 PM CST | Wind Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:29 PM CST | Freezing Rain Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards and 8 more | 21 hr |
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.