Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2014
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 28, 2014, 10:54 AM CST for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2014, 10:54 AM CST (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2014, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
481 WWUS74 KBRO 281654 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1054 AM CST FRI FEB 28 2014 ...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS IN THE LOWER VALLEY TODAY... .GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE BUILT TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 40MPH ACROSS CAMERON COUNTY THIS MORNING. THIS WILL BRING HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL DECREASE AROUND SUNSET. TXZ254>257-282300- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.140228T1654Z-140228T2300Z/ INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 1054 AM CST FRI FEB 28 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...30 MILES PER HOUR WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 40 MPH * TIMING...NOW THROUGH AROUND 5 PM * IMPACT...SMALLER OBJECTS LIKE LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS CAN BE BLOWN AROUND BY THE WINDS SOME BLOWING SAND IS POSSIBLE ON AREA ROADWAYS. DRIVING WILL BE HAZARDOUS...ESPECIALLY ON EAST- WEST ROADS LIKE HIGHWAY 100 AND INTERSTATE 2. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS...AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$
1 follow-up statement
202 WWUS74 KBRO 282316 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 516 PM CST FRI FEB 28 2014 ...DIMINISHING WINDS THIS EVENING... .STRONG SOUTH WINDS CONTINUE TO DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS DAYTIME HEATING SUBSIDES. THE WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED HOWEVER OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 8 PM. TXZ254>257-010030- /O.EXP.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-140228T2300Z/ INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 516 PM CST FRI FEB 28 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... SOUTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH THROUGH 8 PM. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 10:24 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 9 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.