Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 20, 2012, 6:04 AM CST for 36 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 20, 2012, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2012, 6:04 AM CST (12:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2012, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2012, 1:53 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
All 36 counties
Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:10 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
004 WWUS74 KFWD 201204 NPWFWD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 604 AM CST MON FEB 20 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR MOST OF NORTH TEXAS... .A VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS KANSAS THIS MORNING. AS THIS OCCURS...STRONG SOUTH WINDS ABOVE THE SURFACE WILL COMBINE WITH A VERY STRONG SOUTHERLY PRESSURE GRADIENT FOR SOUTH WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 35 MPH BY THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL DIMINISH AND VEER TO THE WEST EARLY THIS EVENING WITH THE PASSAGE OF A PACIFIC COLD FRONT. TXZ091>095-100>107-115>121-129>134-141>145-156>160-202015- /O.NEW.KFWD.WI.Y.0003.120220T1700Z-120220T2300Z/ MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-JOHNSON-ELLIS- COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL- MCLENNAN-FALLS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWIE...NOCONA...GAINESVILLE... SHERMAN...DENISON...BONHAM...PARIS...GRAHAM...OLNEY...JACKSBORO... DECATUR...BRIDGEPORT...DENTON...LEWISVILLE...FLOWER MOUND... THE COLONY...PLANO...GREENVILLE...COMMERCE...COOPER... SULPHUR SPRINGS...BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS...WEATHERFORD... BRIAR...FORT WORTH...ARLINGTON...DALLAS...ROCKWALL...TERRELL... KAUFMAN...FORNEY...CISCO...EASTLAND...RANGER...GORMAN... STEPHENVILLE...DUBLIN...GRANBURY...OAK TRAIL SHORES...GLEN ROSE... CLEBURNE...BURLESON...WAXAHACHIE...ENNIS...MIDLOTHIAN... GLENN HEIGHTS...COMANCHE...DE LEON...GOLDTHWAITE...HAMILTON... HICO...CLIFTON...MERIDIAN...VALLEY MILLS...HILLSBORO...LAMPASAS... COPPERAS COVE...GATESVILLE...KILLEEN...TEMPLE...FORT HOOD... WACO...MARLIN 604 AM CST MON FEB 20 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...11 AM CST TO 5 PM CST. * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH AT TIMES. * IMPACTS...THE VERY GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL MAKE FOR VERY CHOPPY OPEN WATERS ON AREA LAKES. FURTHERMORE...DANGEROUS CROSSWINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS FOR HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES COMMUTING ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED HIGHWAYS AND ROADS. LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN CHAIRS AND TRASH CANS MAY BE THROWN ABOUT BY THE STRONG WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 20 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BOATERS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN VENTURING ONTO AREA LAKES. && $$ 05/
1 follow-up statement
436 WWUS74 KFWD 201953 NPWFWD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 153 PM CST MON FEB 20 2012 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>121-129>134-141>145-156>160-202100- /O.CAN.KFWD.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120220T2300Z/ MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-JOHNSON-ELLIS- COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL- MCLENNAN-FALLS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWIE...NOCONA...GAINESVILLE... SHERMAN...DENISON...BONHAM...PARIS...GRAHAM...OLNEY...JACKSBORO... DECATUR...BRIDGEPORT...DENTON...LEWISVILLE...FLOWER MOUND... THE COLONY...PLANO...GREENVILLE...COMMERCE...COOPER... SULPHUR SPRINGS...BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS...WEATHERFORD... BRIAR...FORT WORTH...ARLINGTON...DALLAS...ROCKWALL...TERRELL... KAUFMAN...FORNEY...CISCO...EASTLAND...RANGER...GORMAN... STEPHENVILLE...DUBLIN...GRANBURY...OAK TRAIL SHORES...GLEN ROSE... CLEBURNE...BURLESON...WAXAHACHIE...ENNIS...MIDLOTHIAN... GLENN HEIGHTS...COMANCHE...DE LEON...GOLDTHWAITE...HAMILTON... HICO...CLIFTON...MERIDIAN...VALLEY MILLS...HILLSBORO...LAMPASAS... COPPERAS COVE...GATESVILLE...KILLEEN...TEMPLE...FORT HOOD... WACO...MARLIN 153 PM CST MON FEB 20 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND SPEEDS WILL STAY BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. $$
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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.