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Wind Chill Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind chill warning at Feb 10, 2011, 12:32 PM CST for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 11, 2011, 2:00 AM CST. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 10, 2011, 12:32 PM CST (18:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 11, 2011, 2:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2011, 5:05 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
742 WWUS44 KBRO 101832 WSWBRO URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1232 PM CST THU FEB 10 2011 ...COLD WIND CHILL VALUES EXPECTED AGAIN TONIGHT... .FREEZING TEMPERATURES TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING COMBINED WITH NORTH WINDS WILL CAUSE LOW WIND CHILL VALUES AGAIN. TXZ249>251-110330- /O.UPG.KBRO.WC.Y.0003.110211T0800Z-110211T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KBRO.WC.W.0004.110211T0800Z-110211T1500Z/ JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS...SARITA 1232 PM CST THU FEB 10 2011 ...WIND CHILL WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CST FRIDAY. THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE MID TO UPPER 20S LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING AND WITH LIGHT NORTH WINDS...WIND CHILL VALUES OF 15 TO 20 DEGREES WILL DEVELOP. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN WIND CHILL INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO OR BELOW 20 FOR AT LEAST 3 HOURS. PERSONS NOT ACCLIMATED TO THESE EXTREME VALUES MAY EXPERIENCE FROSTBITE IF NOT PROTECTED...AND COULD DIE. && $$ TXZ248-252>257-110330- /O.CON.KBRO.WC.Y.0003.110211T0800Z-110211T1500Z/ ZAPATA-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON- COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...RIO GRANDE CITY...ROMA... MCALLEN...EDINBURG...PHARR...MISSION...WESLACO...RAYMONDVILLE... BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL... SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 1232 PM CST THU FEB 10 2011 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CST FRIDAY... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CST FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE UPPER 20S TO NEAR 30 DEGREES AGAIN LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING AND WITH LIGHT NORTH WINDS... WIND CHILL VALUES OF 20 TO 30 DEGREES WILL DEVELOP. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN WIND CHILL INDEX VALUES WILL DROP TO 30 OR LOWER FOR 3 OR MORE HOURS. && $$
1 follow-up statement
157 WWUS44 KBRO 102305 WSWBRO URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 505 PM CST THU FEB 10 2011 ...THE WIND CHILL WARNING AND WIND CHILL ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... .THE WINDS WILL BE BELOW WIND CHILL WARNING AND WIND CHILL ADVISORY CRITERIA OVERNIGHT. LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS TO CALM CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT. TXZ249>251-110015- /O.CAN.KBRO.WC.W.0004.110211T0800Z-110211T1500Z/ JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS...SARITA 505 PM CST THU FEB 10 2011 ...WIND CHILL WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND CHILL WARNING. THE WINDS WILL REMAIN BELOW WIND CHILL WARNING CRITERIA THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS TO CALM CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THEREFORE THE WIND CHILL WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ TXZ248-252>257-110015- /O.CAN.KBRO.WC.Y.0003.110211T0800Z-110211T1500Z/ ZAPATA-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON- COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...RIO GRANDE CITY...ROMA... MCALLEN...EDINBURG...PHARR...MISSION...WESLACO...RAYMONDVILLE... BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL... SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 505 PM CST THU FEB 10 2011 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY. THE WINDS WILL REMAIN BELOW WIND CHILL ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS TO CALM CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THEREFORE THE WIND CHILL WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 3:06 AM CST | Gale Warning | BRO | 3 hr | |
| Feb 10, 3:06 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 12 hr | |
| Feb 10, 3:06 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 9 hr | |
| Feb 10, 3:35 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Willacy, Zapata | 29 hr |
| Feb 10, 3:35 AM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Zapata | 29 hr |
| Feb 10, 3:54 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
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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.