Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 10, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 7, 2011, 11:04 AM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2011, 11:04 AM CDT (16:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2011, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 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 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 568 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -810 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
814 WWUS74 KBRO 071604 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1104 AM CDT THU APR 7 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH WIND FOR THE LOWER VALLEY THE REMAINDER OF TODAY... .STRONG WINDS ALOFT ARE MIXING TO THE SURFACE LATE THIS MORNING AND WILL LIKELY PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST WIND ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 77 ACROSS CAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTIES. TXZ254>257-072200- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0010.110407T1604Z-110407T2200Z/ INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 1104 AM CDT THU APR 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 10:09 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 21 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.