Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 12, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 19, 2012, 9:15 PM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2012, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 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 02:22 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, 2.3 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
- 2458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
391 WWUS74 KBRO 200215 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 915 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 ...STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS EXPECTED ALONG THE LOWER TEXAS COASTAL COUNTIES... .A LARGE AND WELL DEVELOPED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LOCATED OVER THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS ACROSS KENEDY...WILLACY AND CAMERON COUNTIES THROUGHOUT THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. TXZ251-254>257-200900- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0012.120320T0215Z-120320T0900Z/ 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 915 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT TUESDAY. * EVENT...GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...THESE STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS CAMERON...WILLACY AND KENEDY COUNTIES. THESE WINDS WILL START TO WEAKEN DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON TUESDAY. * IMPACT...MOTORISTS OPERATING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...ESPECIALLY ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS AND HIGHWAYS WILL HAVE INCREASED DIFFICULTY DRIVING IN THE WINDY CONDITIONS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 4:34 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy | 4 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.