Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2012, 2:17 PM CST for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 2:17 PM CST (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 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 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 8.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
229 WWUS74 KBRO 250025 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 625 PM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...INLAND WINDS DIMINISHING ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... TXZ251-256-257-250130- /O.EXP.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-120225T0000Z/ KENEDY-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SARITA...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL... SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 625 PM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE NORTH WINDS ACROSS THE INLAND PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS HAVE DECREASE DOWN INTO THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE. THESE WINDS WILL EVENTUALLY DECREASE INTO THE 10 TO 15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. $$
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, 1:25 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BRO | Kenedy | 13 hr |
| Feb 24, 5:43 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 62 min |
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.