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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Nov 11, 2012, 5:17 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 11, 2012, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 2012, 5:17 AM CST (11:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 11, 2012, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2012, 3:00 PM CST
- 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 11:17 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, 11.3 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
- 267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
755 WWUS74 KBRO 111117 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 517 AM CST SUN NOV 11 2012 ...STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS EXPECTED TODAY... .A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE BUILDING OVER WESTERN TEXAS AND THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL INTERACT WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO TO PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS OUT OF THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST TODAY ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. TXZ251-254>257-111930- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0018.121111T1500Z-121111T2100Z/ 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 517 AM CST SUN NOV 11 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE THROUGH MID MORNING. WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. 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. && $$ JGG/GB
1 follow-up statement
948 WWUS74 KBRO 111933 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 133 PM CST SUN NOV 11 2012 ...STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH MID AFTERNOON... .A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE BUILDING OVER WESTERN TEXAS AND THE CENTRAL PLAINS INTERACTING WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO CONTINUES TO PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS OUT OF THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. TXZ251-254>257-112100- /O.CON.KBRO.WI.Y.0018.000000T0000Z-121111T2100Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 133 PM CST SUN NOV 11 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...SOUTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 3:48 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 12 hr | |
| Nov 11, 4:42 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 21 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.