Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 15, 2006, 11:07 AM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2006, 11:07 AM CDT (16:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2006, 2:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Burnet 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
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 151607 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1107 AM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH 4 PM CDT FOR EASTERN PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE NORTH OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WILL MOVE TO EASTERN KANSAS LATER TODAY. THE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL BE STRONG OVER THE EAST PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...AND THEN DIMINISH LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING. TXZ172-173-191>194-206>209-222>225-152100- /O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0009.060415T1607Z-060415T2100Z/ BURNET-WILLIAMSON-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-COMAL-GUADALUPE- CALDWELL-FAYETTE-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURNET...GEORGETOWN...SAN MARCOS... AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN...LOCKHART... LA GRANGE...KARNES CITY...GONZALES...CUERO...HALLETTSVILLE 1107 AM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR BURNET...WILLIAMSON...HAYS... TRAVIS...BASTROP...LEE...COMAL...AND GUADALUPE COUNTIES. SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH IS EXPECTED THROUGH 4 PM CDT OVER PARTS OF BURNET...WILLIAMSON... HAYS...TRAVIS...BASTROP...LEE...COMAL...AND GUADALUPE COUNTIES. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KEWX 151921 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 221 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELLED FOR EASTERN PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .THE SURFACE LOW THAT BROUGHT STRONGER WINDS TO THE AREA EARLIER TODAY HAS MOVED FURTHER NORTH AND NORTHEAST...RESULTING IN A WEAKER PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AS A RESULT THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. BREEZY SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH IS STILL EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER NOT STRONG ENOUGHT FOR WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. TXZ172-173-191>194-206>209-222>225-152030- /O.CAN.KEWX.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-060415T2100Z/ BURNET-WILLIAMSON-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-COMAL-GUADALUPE- CALDWELL-FAYETTE-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURNET...GEORGETOWN...SAN MARCOS... AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN...LOCKHART... LA GRANGE...KARNES CITY...GONZALES...CUERO...HALLETTSVILLE 221 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. BREEZY SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH IS STILL EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER NOT STRONG ENOUGHT FOR WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:01 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall and 6 more | 20 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.