Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 17, 2011, 1:08 PM CST for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2011, 1:08 PM CST (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2011, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 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 19:11 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, 7.1 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
726 WWUS74 KBRO 171908 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 108 PM CST THU FEB 17 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY ISSUED FOR COASTAL DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... .THE INTERACTION OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO AND A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE OVER WEST TEXAS IS PRODUCING SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS AROUND 30 MPH...AS WELL AS GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON BEFORE RELAXING AROUND SUNSET. TXZ254>257-180000- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0003.110217T1908Z-110218T0000Z/ 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 108 PM CST THU FEB 17 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AROUND 30 MPH...WITH FREQUENT GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH...WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL RELAX AROUND 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. && $$ 25/LCH
1 follow-up statement
474 WWUS74 KBRO 180003 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 603 PM CST THU FEB 17 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... TXZ254>257-180115- /O.EXP.KBRO.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-110218T0000Z/ INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 603 PM CST THU FEB 17 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO RELAX THIS EVENING OVER WILLACY AND CAMERON COUNTIES...AND WINDS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DO SO THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 3:25 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 16 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.