Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2011, 9:47 AM CST for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2011, 9:47 AM CST (15:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2011, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 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 15:48 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, 3.8 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -852 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
520 WWUS74 KBRO 241547 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 947 AM CST THU FEB 24 2011 ...STRONG WINDS ACROSS THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS MORNING... .A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET HAS MIXED TO THE SURFACE THIS MORNING PRODUCING STRONG SOUTHERN WINDS ACROSS THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF CAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTIES. THE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SHORT LIVED LASTING UNTIL 1 PM OR POSSIBLE DIMINISHING BEFORE NOON. TXZ254>257-241900- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.110224T1547Z-110224T1900Z/ 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 947 AM CST THU FEB 24 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS OVER 40 MPH EXPECTED THIS MORNING. 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. && $$ GB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:03 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 6 hr | |
| Feb 24, 3:03 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 12 hr | |
| Feb 24, 3:38 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 2 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.