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High Surf Advisory 1, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 21, 2011Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this high surf advisory at May 21, 2011, 8:41 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at May 22, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 48 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 21, 2011, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
In effect from: May 22, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 24, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 48 hr
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

County Kenedy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 surf advisory went out at May 21, 6:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 6:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 3:30 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	BRO		42 hr
May 22, 4:22 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	13 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Texas, 2011 Every high surf advisory in 2011

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.