Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2012, 1:25 AM CST for Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 24, 2012, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 1:25 AM CST (07:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2012, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
County Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
983 WWUS74 KBRO 240725 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 125 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...STRONG NORTH WINDS EXPECTED NEAR THE COAST THIS MORNING... .A VIGOUROUS COLD FRONT WILL MOVE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AT 20 TO 25 MPH FROM NEAR RIVIERA AND SARITA IN KENEDY COUNTY JUST BEFORE SUNRISE TO NEAR BROWNSVILLE AROUND MID MORNING. NORTH WINDS WILL BECOME STRONG AND GUSTY IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST...PROMPTING A WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL DIMINISH FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS HIGH PRESSURE SPREADS OVER THE AREA. TXZ251-256-257-241800- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0004.120224T1400Z-120224T1800Z/ KENEDY-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL... SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 125 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO NOON CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO NOON CST TODAY. * TIMING...FRIDAY MORNING. * WINDS...NORTH WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS 40 TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO DRIVE...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES OR OVERPASSES AND IN CROSS WINDS. MOVE LIGHT AND MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS PATIO FURNITURE...EMPTY TRASH CANS...AND PORTABLE BASKETBALL POSTS...INDOORS. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
473 WWUS74 KBRO 241757 AAA NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1157 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...STRONG NORTH WINDS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON... .A COLD FRONT HAS MOVED SOUTH OF THE AREA THIS MORNING WILL RESULT IN STRONG AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS THROUGH MID AFTERNOON TODAY...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST...PROMPTING A WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS HIGH PRESSURE SPREADS OVER THE AREA. TXZ251-256-257-242000- /O.EXT.KBRO.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-120224T2000Z/ KENEDY-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL... SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 1157 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...FRIDAY MID AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTH WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS 40 TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO DRIVE...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES OR OVERPASSES AND IN CROSS WINDS. MOVE LIGHT AND MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS PATIO FURNITURE...EMPTY TRASH CANS...AND PORTABLE BASKETBALL POSTS...INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$
477 WWUS74 KBRO 242017 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 217 PM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ......STRONG NORTH WINDS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... .THE COLD FRONT HAS MOVED WELL SOUTH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT...STRONG AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST. WINDS WILL DIMINISH EARLY THIS EVENING AS HIGH PRESSURE SPREADS OVER THE AREA. TXZ251-256-257-250000- /O.EXP.KBRO.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-120224T2000Z/ /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.120224T2017Z-120225T0000Z/ KENEDY-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL... SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 217 PM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED FROM EARLIER TODAY AND HAS BEEN REISSUED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS EXTENDED THE WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...FRIDAY MID AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTH WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS 40 TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO DRIVE...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES OR OVERPASSES AND IN CROSS WINDS. MOVE LIGHT AND MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS PATIO FURNITURE...EMPTY TRASH CANS...AND PORTABLE BASKETBALL POSTS...INDOORS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 12:24 AM CST | Gale Warning | BRO | 21 hr | |
| Feb 24, 12:24 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 10 hr | |
| Feb 24, 12:24 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 60 hr | |
| Feb 24, 12:24 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 18 hr | |
| Feb 24, 5:43 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 62 min | |
| Feb 24, 2:17 PM CST | Wind Advisory | BRO | Kenedy | 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.