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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Brownsville, TX

February 24, 2012Kenedy County, Texas

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.

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-02-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 24, 12:24 AM CSTGale WarningBRO21 hr
Feb 24, 12:24 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryBRO10 hr
Feb 24, 12:24 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryBRO60 hr
Feb 24, 12:24 AM CSTSmall Craft Advisory for WindsBRO18 hr
Feb 24, 1:25 AM CSTWind AdvisoryBROKenedy13 hr
Feb 24, 5:43 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningBRO62 min

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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.