Alert archive / Texas / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this high wind warning at Mar 3, 2008, 2:21 PM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2008, 2:21 PM CST (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2008, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
County Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 032021 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 221 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY UNTIL 8 PM CST... ...A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... .A VERY STRONG COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS HAVE INCREASED BEHIND THIS COLD FRONT AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE AREA. NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH AROUND 8 PM. WINDS OVER VAL VERDE COUNTY WILL BLOW AT 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH AND THEREFORE A HIGH WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY. TXZ183-040200- /O.UPG.KEWX.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-080304T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KEWX.HW.W.0001.080303T2021Z-080304T0200Z/ VAL VERDE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...DEL RIO 221 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO AROUND 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED INTO THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL DECREASE LATER THIS EVENING TO LESS THAN 15 MPH BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH FOR ONE HOUR WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WHICH WILL LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ TXZ171>173-184>194-202>209-217>225-228-040200- /O.CON.KEWX.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-080304T0200Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE- KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR- COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO-ATASCOSA- WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LLANO...BURNET...GEORGETOWN... ROCKSPRINGS...LEAKEY...KERRVILLE...BANDERA...FREDERICKSBURG... BOERNE...BLANCO...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS... BRACKETTVILLE...UVALDE...HONDO...SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS... SEGUIN...LOCKHART...LA GRANGE...EAGLE PASS...CRYSTAL CITY... PEARSALL...PLEASANTON...FLORESVILLE...KARNES CITY...GONZALES... CUERO...HALLETTSVILLE...CARRIZO SPRINGS 221 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO AROUND 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL DECREASE LATE THIS EVENING TO LESS THAN 15 MPH BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 26 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR THOSE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...ESPECIALLY ALONG EAST-WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS. USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING ON MONDAY. $$
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2008Every high wind warning in 2008
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.