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Wind Advisory 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this wind advisory at Sep 7, 2012, 7:19 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2012, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2012, 11:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
Counties Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Young County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
331 WWUS74 KFWD 080019 NPWFWD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 719 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012 TXZ091-100-101-115-116-080500- /O.NEW.KFWD.WI.Y.0009.120908T0019Z-120908T0500Z/ MONTAGUE-YOUNG-JACK-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWIE...NOCONA...GRAHAM...OLNEY... JACKSBORO...BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS 719 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR MONTAGUE...YOUNG...JACK...STEPHENS AND PALO PINTO COUNTIES. * TIMING...THROUGH MIDNIGHT * WINDS...NORTH WINDS AT 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH BEHIND A COLD FRONT. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG MAY MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE IN LIGHT WEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BOATERS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN VENTURING ONTO AREA LAKES. RESIDENTS MAY WISH TO TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS THAT MAY BE BLOWN AROUND IN THE STRONG WINDS. && $$ 92
1 follow-up statement
810 WWUS74 KFWD 080426 NPWFWD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1126 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012 TXZ091-100-101-115-116-080530- /O.CAN.KFWD.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-120908T0500Z/ MONTAGUE-YOUNG-JACK-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWIE...NOCONA...GRAHAM...OLNEY... JACKSBORO...BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS 1126 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND SPEEDS HAVE FALLEN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA BUT STILL EXPECT BREEZY NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. $$
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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.