Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2014
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 2, 2014, 5:29 PM CST for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 2, 2014, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2014, 5:29 PM CST (23:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2014, 8:25 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Medina County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 1175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
665 WWUS74 KEWX 022329 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 529 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2014 ...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL CREATE WINDY CONDITIONS THROUGH 10 PM IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT... .STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WITH GUSTS UP 35 MPH WILL CREATE WINDY CONDITIONS THIS EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR AND SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES. WINDS WILL DECREASE BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA AFTER 10 PM THIS EVENING. TXZ191-204>208-219>224-030400- /O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0003.140303T0000Z-140303T0400Z/ HAYS-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON- KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SAN MARCOS...HONDO...SAN ANTONIO... NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN...LOCKHART...PEARSALL...PLEASANTON... FLORESVILLE...KARNES CITY...GONZALES...CUERO 529 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 10 PM THIS EVENING * WINDS...20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTING UP TO 35 MPH * IMPACTS...TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
960 WWUS74 KEWX 030225 AAA NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 825 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... .NORTHERLY WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...NORTHERLY WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS MAINLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 83. TXZ191-204>208-219>224-030330- /O.CAN.KEWX.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-140303T0400Z/ HAYS-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON- KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SAN MARCOS...HONDO...SAN ANTONIO... NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN...LOCKHART...PEARSALL...PLEASANTON... FLORESVILLE...KARNES CITY...GONZALES...CUERO 825 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTHERLY WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS EVENING. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY ISSUED EARLIER FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. HOWEVER...NORTHERLY WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS MAINLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 83. $$
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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.