Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 8, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 22, 2011, 4:37 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 22, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2011, 4:37 AM CDT (09:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 22, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 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 09:35 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, 9.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
962 WWUS74 KBRO 220937 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 437 AM CDT TUE MAR 22 2011 ...GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS AFFECTING DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TODAY... .INTERACTION BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO AND LOW PRESSURE ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND NORTHERN MEXICO WILL PRODUCE A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AROUND 30 MPH WITH LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS LATE THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. TXZ251-254>257-221745- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0008.110322T1500Z-110322T2300Z/ 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 437 AM CDT TUE MAR 22 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 35 AND 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS MORNING AND PERSIST THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH TOWARD SUNSET THIS EVENING. 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. && $$ VIPOND
1 follow-up statement
716 WWUS74 KBRO 222048 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 348 PM CDT TUE MAR 22 2011 ...GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS AFFECTING DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON... .INTERACTION BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO AND LOW PRESSURE ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND NORTHERN MEXICO WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET WILL PRODUCE STRONG SOUTH WINDS AROUND 30 MPH WITH LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS LATE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. TXZ251-254>257-222300- /O.CON.KBRO.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-110322T2300Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 348 PM CDT TUE MAR 22 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 35 AND 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH TOWARD SUNSET THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$ CASTILLO
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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.