Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2014
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 23, 2014, 2:16 PM CST for 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 2014, 2:16 PM CST (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2014, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 28 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 248 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
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
859 WWUS74 KEWX 232016 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 216 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING... .STRONG GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. TXZ171>173-184>194-203>209-219>225-240200- /O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0001.140123T2016Z-140124T0200Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE- KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL- GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES- DE WITT-LAVACA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LLANO...BURNET...GEORGETOWN... ROCKSPRINGS...LEAKEY...KERRVILLE...BANDERA...FREDERICKSBURG... BOERNE...BLANCO...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS... UVALDE...HONDO...SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN... LOCKHART...LA GRANGE...PEARSALL...PLEASANTON...FLORESVILLE... KARNES CITY...GONZALES...CUERO...HALLETTSVILLE 216 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 8PM. * WINDS...NORTHERLY 25 TO 35 MPH. * IMPACTS...DIFFICULT DRIVING FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 26 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
431 WWUS74 KEWX 240216 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 816 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... .THE PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS LOOSENED A BIT AS THE FRONT MOVES FARTHER SOUTH. THIS HAS ALLOWED WINDS TO DECREASE TO BELOW ADVISORY SPEEDS. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT. TXZ171>173-184>194-203>209-219>225-240330- /O.EXP.KEWX.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-140124T0200Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE- KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL- GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES- DE WITT-LAVACA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LLANO...BURNET...GEORGETOWN... ROCKSPRINGS...LEAKEY...KERRVILLE...BANDERA...FREDERICKSBURG... BOERNE...BLANCO...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS... UVALDE...HONDO...SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN... LOCKHART...LA GRANGE...PEARSALL...PLEASANTON...FLORESVILLE... KARNES CITY...GONZALES...CUERO...HALLETTSVILLE 816 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WIND SPEEDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO BE BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS OVERNIGHT. $$
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.