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Wind Advisory 19, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at May 10, 2011, 3:25 AM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at May 10, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2011, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 10, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 10, 2011, 3:34 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 08:28 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 00:00Z, 8.4 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
- 1780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
523 WWUS74 KBRO 100825 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 325 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 2011 ...STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS ACROSS COASTAL SECTIONS TODAY... .HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO WILL INTERACT WITH LOW PRESSURE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND HIGH PLAINS AND INTO WEST TEXAS TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS NEAR THE COAST TODAY. WINDS ACROSS CAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTIES WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH FOR SEVERAL HOURS TODAY...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH POSSIBLE. TXZ254-255-101700- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0019.110510T1500Z-110510T2200Z/ INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN 325 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH THIS MORNING AND WILL PERSIST FOR SEVERAL HOURS. GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP BETWEEN 10 AM AND 3 PM. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
560 WWUS74 KBRO 101020 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 520 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 2011 ...STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS ACROSS COASTAL SECTIONS TODAY... .HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO WILL INTERACT WITH LOW PRESSURE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND HIGH PLAINS AND INTO WEST TEXAS TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS NEAR THE COAST TODAY. WINDS ACROSS CAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTIES WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH FOR SEVERAL HOURS TODAY...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH POSSIBLE. TXZ256-257-101830- /O.EXA.KBRO.WI.Y.0019.110510T1500Z-110510T2200Z/ COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL... SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 520 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH THIS MORNING AND WILL PERSIST FOR SEVERAL HOURS. GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP BETWEEN 10 AM AND 3 PM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$ TXZ254-255-101830- /O.CON.KBRO.WI.Y.0019.110510T1500Z-110510T2200Z/ INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN 520 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH THIS MORNING AND WILL PERSIST FOR SEVERAL HOURS. GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP BETWEEN 10 AM AND 3 PM. 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. && $$
803 WWUS74 KBRO 102034 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 334 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2011 ...WINDS TO DIMINISH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON... .PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE LOWER VALLEY IS SLOWLY RELAXING. STRONG WINDS THAT WERE OCCURRING OVER THE LOWER VALLEY EARLIER TODAY HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA AND WILL CONTINUE TO SHOW A DECREASING TREND THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TXZ254>257-102145- /O.CAN.KBRO.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-110510T2200Z/ INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 334 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH A OCCASIONAL GUST TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH SUNSET. GUSTS SHOULD BECOME LESS FREQUENT THIS EVENING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:37 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 12 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.