Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 25, 2012, 5:30 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 25, 2012, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 79 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2012, 5:30 AM CST (11:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 25, 2012, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2012, 9:19 AM CST
- In force
- 79 min
- 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 11:31 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, 11.5 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
- 1975 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 15.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
408 WWUS74 KBRO 251130 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 530 AM CST WED JAN 25 2012 ...STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL BRIEFLY DEVELOP ACROSS THE LOWER TEXAS COAST THIS MORNING... .A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET ACROSS THE LOWER TEXAS COAST WILL BRIEFLY MIX DOWN ACROSS THE COASTAL SECTIONS THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL INCREASE FROM THE SOUTHEAST BEFORE SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST LATER TODAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. TXZ251-254>257-251800- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0002.120125T1400Z-120125T1800Z/ 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 530 AM CST WED JAN 25 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE FROM THE SOUTHEAST TO 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH ACROSS THE LOWER TEXAS COAST THIS MORNING BEFORE A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. 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. && $$ CASTILLO
1 follow-up statement
439 WWUS74 KBRO 251519 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 919 AM CST WED JAN 25 2012 TXZ251-254>257-251630- /O.CAN.KBRO.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-120125T1800Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 919 AM CST WED JAN 25 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 5:19 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:23 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 28 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.