Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 14, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 19, 2011, 10:32 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2011, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2011, 7:18 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1988 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
669 WWUS74 KBRO 191532 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1032 AM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS EXPECTED OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... .A LARGE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SITUATED OVER THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES WILL RESULT IN STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST SURFACE WINDS ACROSS THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS MORNING INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. TXZ251-254>257-200000- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0014.110419T1532Z-110420T0000Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 1032 AM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A LARGE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SITUATED OVER THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES WILL RESULT IN STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST SURFACE WINDS RANGING FROM 25 TO 35 MPH ACROSS THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS MORNING INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. SOME HIGHER GUSTS FROM 35 TO 40 MPH MAY BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE REST OF TODAY. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL THEN GRADUALLY WEAKEN AFTER SUNSET THIS EVENING BUT WILL LIKELY REMAIN PRETTY BREEZY THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. 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. && $$ SPEECE
2 follow-up statements
945 WWUS74 KBRO 191907 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 207 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS EXPECTED OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... .A LARGE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SITUATED OVER THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES WILL RESULT IN STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST SURFACE WINDS ACROSS THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS MORNING INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. TXZ251-254>257-200200- /O.EXT.KBRO.WI.Y.0014.000000T0000Z-110420T0200Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 207 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A LARGE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SITUATED OVER THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES WILL RESULT IN STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST SURFACE WINDS RANGING FROM 25 TO 35 MPH ACROSS THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. SOME HIGHER GUSTS FROM 35 TO 40 MPH MAY BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE EARLY EVENING. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL THEN GRADUALLY WEAKEN AFTER SUNSET THIS EVENING BUT WILL LIKELY REMAIN PRETTY BREEZY THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$
343 WWUS74 KBRO 200018 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 718 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... .OBSERVATION PLATFORMS WITHIN CAMERON...WILLACY...AND KENEDY COUNTY INDICATE THAT SURFACE WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...AND THUS THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN TERMINATED A COUPLE OF HOURS EARLY. TXZ251-254>257-200130- /O.CAN.KBRO.WI.Y.0014.000000T0000Z-110420T0200Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 718 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY...PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR CAMERON...WILLACY...AND KENEDY COUNTY. SURFACE WINDS WITHIN THESE COUNTIES HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...AND THEREFORE THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED A COUPLE OF HOURS EARLY. MODERATE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. $$ TOMASELLI
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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.