Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Oct 22, 2010, 9:06 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 22, 2010, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 2010, 9:06 AM CDT (14:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 22, 2010, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 700 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
759 WWUS74 KBRO 221406 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 906 AM CDT FRI OCT 22 2010 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TODAY... .A STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WIND IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. A TIGHT LOCAL PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL PRODUCE WINDS AROUND 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS FROM EASTERN PORTIONS OF HIDALGO COUNTY EASTWARD ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. TXZ251-253>257-222215- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0013.101022T1600Z-101022T2300Z/ KENEDY-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...MCALLEN...EDINBURG...PHARR... MISSION...WESLACO...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN... PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 906 AM CDT FRI OCT 22 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND WEST TEXAS WILL INTERACT WITH HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO TO PRODUCE A TIGHT LOCAL PRESSURE GRADIENT. SUSTAINED SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 30 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL HIGHER GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE LATE MORNING INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR FROM THE HIGHWAY 281 CORRIDOR IN HIDALGO COUNTY AND POINTS TO THE EAST ACROSS COASTAL COUNTIES. THE STRONG WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH THIS EVENING TOWARD SUNSET. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$ RV
1 follow-up statement
867 WWUS74 KBRO 222311 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 611 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2010 TXZ251-253>257-230015- /O.EXP.KBRO.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-101022T2300Z/ KENEDY-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...MCALLEN...EDINBURG...PHARR... MISSION...WESLACO...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN... PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 611 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE SOUTHEASTERLY SURFACE WINDS WILL WEAKEN SLOWLY OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS FALLING BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. ACCORDINGLY THE WIND ADVISORY FOR PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Hidalgo | 12 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:30 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 17 hr | |
| Oct 22, 2:13 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 29 hr | |
| Oct 22, 2:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Hidalgo | 60 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.