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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this high wind watch at Mar 16, 2008, 8:12 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 17, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2008, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 4:21 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1152 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Mar 16, 4:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 4:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:20 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 15 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:20 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 15 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:02 PM CDT | High Surf Advisory | BRO | Kenedy | 25 hr |
Nearby
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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.