Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 27, 2011, 10:32 AM CDT for 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2011, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 33 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:30 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 4181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.