Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 16, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 27, 2012, 12:42 PM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2012, 12:42 PM CDT (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 17:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
372 WWUS74 KBRO 271742 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1242 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2012 ...STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .THE COMBINATION OF A LARGE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SPRAWLED OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTH CENTRAL PLAINS STATES AND SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL MAINTAIN STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS OVER THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. TXZ251-254>257-280000- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0016.120427T1742Z-120428T0000Z/ 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 1242 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS FROM 30 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS ACROSS KENEDY...CAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTIES. THESE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WILL THEN DIMINISH SOME AFTER 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
067 WWUS74 KBRO 280022 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 722 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2012 ...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... .THE GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS OVER THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS HAVE DECREASED THIS EVENING. THE WIND ADVISORY FOR KENEDY...WILLACY AND CAMERON COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. TXZ251-254>257-280130- /O.EXP.KBRO.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-120428T0000Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 722 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL SLOWLY DECREASE THROUGH THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 9:17 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 25 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.