Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 16, 2008, 7:18 PM CST for Edwards County, Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2008, 7:18 PM CST (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2008, 10:44 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 2287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 170118 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 718 PM CST SAT FEB 16 2008 ...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR VAL VERDE...EDWARDS... AND KINNEY COUNTIES... .STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT AS A STRONG STORMS SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS TEXAS THIS EVENING. TXZ183-184-202-170600- /O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0005.080217T0118Z-080217T0600Z/ VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-KINNEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DEL RIO...ROCKSPRINGS...BRACKETTVILLE 718 PM CST SAT FEB 16 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH HAVE DEVELOPED DUE TO A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS TEXAS THIS EVENING. THE NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE TO 15 TO 20 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... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KEWX 170444 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1044 PM CST SAT FEB 16 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... TXZ183-184-202-170545- /O.CAN.KEWX.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-080217T0600Z/ VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-KINNEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DEL RIO...ROCKSPRINGS...BRACKETTVILLE 1044 PM CST SAT FEB 16 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DECREASED THE LAST HOUR AND THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 6:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 23 min |
| Feb 16, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 23 min |
| Feb 16, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 25 min |
| Feb 16, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 24 min |
| Feb 17, 12:36 PM CST | Wind Advisory | EWX | Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:40 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Dimmit, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina and 3 more | 3 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.