Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 27, 2011, 2:21 PM CST for 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2011, 2:21 PM CST (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2011, 6:09 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
All 28 counties
Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
491 WWUS74 KFWD 272021 NPWFWD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 221 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS... .A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL BRING VERY GUSTY SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST WINDS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH TEXAS...AS A DRYLINE MOVES WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. BY LATER THIS EVENING...WINDS WILL BECOME MORE WESTERLY ACROSS THIS REGION...YET REMAIN VERY GUSTY. TXZ091>093-100>104-115>119-129>134-141>145-156>159-280400- /O.NEW.KFWD.WI.Y.0003.110227T2021Z-110228T0600Z/ MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-STEPHENS- PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-LAMPASAS- CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWIE...NOCONA...GAINESVILLE... SHERMAN...DENISON...GRAHAM...OLNEY...JACKSBORO...DECATUR... BRIDGEPORT...DENTON...LEWISVILLE...FLOWER MOUND...THE COLONY... PLANO...BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS...WEATHERFORD...BRIAR... FORT WORTH...ARLINGTON...DALLAS...CISCO...EASTLAND...RANGER... GORMAN...STEPHENVILLE...DUBLIN...GRANBURY...OAK TRAIL SHORES... GLEN ROSE...CLEBURNE...BURLESON...WAXAHACHIE...ENNIS... MIDLOTHIAN...GLENN HEIGHTS...COMANCHE...DE LEON...GOLDTHWAITE... HAMILTON...HICO...CLIFTON...MERIDIAN...VALLEY MILLS...HILLSBORO... LAMPASAS...COPPERAS COVE...GATESVILLE...KILLEEN...TEMPLE... FORT HOOD...WACO 221 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST WINDS BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA. AS A SURFACE DRYLINE CONTINUES PUSHING EAST TOWARDS THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR...WIND DIRECTION WILL EVENTUALLY SHIFT MORE WESTERLY AND REMAIN VERY GUSTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 20 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BOATERS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN VENTURING ONTO AREA LAKES. RESIDENTS MAY WISH TO TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS THAT MAY BE BLOWN AROUND IN THE STRONG WINDS. && $$ 05/
1 follow-up statement
703 WWUS74 KFWD 280009 NPWFWD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 609 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 TXZ091>093-100>104-115>119-129>134-141>145-156>159-280115- /O.CAN.KFWD.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-110228T0600Z/ MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-STEPHENS- PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-LAMPASAS- CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWIE...NOCONA...GAINESVILLE... SHERMAN...DENISON...GRAHAM...OLNEY...JACKSBORO...DECATUR... BRIDGEPORT...DENTON...LEWISVILLE...FLOWER MOUND...THE COLONY... PLANO...BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS...WEATHERFORD...BRIAR... FORT WORTH...ARLINGTON...DALLAS...CISCO...EASTLAND...RANGER... GORMAN...STEPHENVILLE...DUBLIN...GRANBURY...OAK TRAIL SHORES... GLEN ROSE...CLEBURNE...BURLESON...WAXAHACHIE...ENNIS... MIDLOTHIAN...GLENN HEIGHTS...COMANCHE...DE LEON...GOLDTHWAITE... HAMILTON...HICO...CLIFTON...MERIDIAN...VALLEY MILLS...HILLSBORO... LAMPASAS...COPPERAS COVE...GATESVILLE...KILLEEN...TEMPLE... FORT HOOD...WACO 609 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE IN FROM THE WEST LATER THIS EVENING AND WEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH ARE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT. $$
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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.