Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Oct 30, 2015, 11:54 PM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2015, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2015, 6:16 AM CDT
- 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 04:54 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 00:00Z, 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
- 3281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
479 WWUS74 KBRO 310454 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1154 PM CDT FRI OCT 30 2015 ...STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE LOWER TEXAS COAST LATE TONIGHT... .SURFACE LOW PRESSURE ACROSS SOUTHWEST TEXAS IN COMBINATION WITH A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET ACROSS THE LOWER TEXAS COAST WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE LOWER TEXAS COAST LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. TXZ254>257-311200- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0009.151031T0454Z-151031T1200Z/ 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 1154 PM CDT FRI OCT 30 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT SATURDAY. * TIMING...NOW THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST WINDS 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOVE LIGHT AND MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS PATIO FURNITURE...EMPTY TRASH CANS...AND PORTABLE BASKETBALL POSTS... INDOORS. HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES MAY BE DIFFICULT TO DRIVE...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES OR OVERPASSES AND IN CROSS WINDS. 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. && $$ CASTILLO
1 follow-up statement
168 WWUS74 KBRO 311116 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 616 AM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015 ...WINDS CONTINUE TO DIMINISH ACROSS THE LOWER TEXAS COAST THIS MORNING... .WINDS CONTINUE TO DIMINISH ACROSS THE LOWER TEXAS COAST AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST THIS MORNING. TXZ254>257-311230- /O.CAN.KBRO.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-151031T1200Z/ INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE... HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 616 AM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE LOWER TEXAS COAST THIS MORNING. $$ CASTILLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 8:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | BRO | Willacy | 24 hr |
| Oct 30, 10:42 PM CDT | Gale Warning | BRO | 5 hr | |
| Oct 30, 10:42 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 20 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.