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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Brownsville, TX

February 28, 2014Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas

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.

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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-02-28Temperature 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 238 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 10:24 AM CSTSmall Craft Advisory for WindsBRO9 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Texas, 2014Every wind advisory in 2014

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.