Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Jul 24, 2008, 12:41 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 2008, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Dimmit County, TX, Frio County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KEWX 241741 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1241 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...STRONG WINDS FROM TROPICAL STORM DOLLY EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON... .DOLLY WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY WEAKEN AS THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION TRACKS WEST FROM NEAR LAREDO INTO NORTHERN MEXICO. NORTH OF THIS CENTER OF CIRCULATION OVER THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS...STRONG WINDS WILL BLOW MAINLY FROM THE EAST AT SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS TO 45 MPH THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS SHOULD FALL TO BELOW 20 MPH BY THIS EVENING. TXZ217>219-228-242300- /O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0016.080724T1741Z-080724T2300Z/ MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO-DIMMIT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE PASS...CRYSTAL CITY...PEARSALL... CARRIZO SPRINGS 1241 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT EASTERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH... GENERALLY SOUTH OF A QUEMADO TO DERBY LINE THROUGH 6 PM. WINDS SHOULD DECREASE TO AROUND 20 MPH EARLY THIS EVENING. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KEWX 242305 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 605 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... .TROPICAL DEPRESSION DOLLY CONTINUES TO MOVE WEST NORTHWEST AWAY FROM THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS. WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO AROUND 15 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS TO 25 MPH. TXZ217>219-228-250015- /O.EXP.KEWX.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-080724T2300Z/ MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO-DIMMIT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE PASS...CRYSTAL CITY...PEARSALL... CARRIZO SPRINGS 605 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO AROUND 15 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS TO 25 MPH. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Dimmit, Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde, Zavala | 27 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Atascosa | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 9:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson | 20 min |
| Jul 24, 10:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 11:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 11:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Gonzales, Guadalupe | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 12:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 29 min |
| Jul 24, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Kendall, Kerr, Medina | 36 min |
| Jul 24, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 21 min |
| Jul 24, 2:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Burnet, Fayette, Lee, Llano, Travis and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Caldwell, DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Lavaca and 1 more | 117 min |
| Jul 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 6:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 119 min |
| Jul 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Comal | 116 min |
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.