Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 13, 2015, 2:21 PM CST for 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2015, 2:21 PM CST (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 13, 2015, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 23 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Comal County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 104 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -502 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -662 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
242 WWUS74 KEWX 132021 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 221 PM CST SUN DEC 13 2015 TXZ171>173-183>192-202>206-217>220-228-140000- /O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0005.151213T2021Z-151214T0000Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-KINNEY-UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR- COMAL-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO-ATASCOSA-DIMMIT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LLANO...BURNET...GEORGETOWN...DEL RIO... ROCKSPRINGS...LEAKEY...KERRVILLE...BANDERA...FREDERICKSBURG... BOERNE...BLANCO...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN...BRACKETTVILLE...UVALDE... HONDO...SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS...EAGLE PASS...CRYSTAL CITY... PEARSALL...PLEASANTON...CARRIZO SPRINGS 221 PM CST SUN DEC 13 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 6 PM. * WINDS...25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...MINOR DAMAGE TO WEAK TREES AND POORLY BUILT STRUCTURES. LOOSE OBJECTS WILL BE BLOWN AROUND AND COULD CAUSE MINOR DAMAGE. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 9:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Dec 12, 10:18 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real | 57 min |
| Dec 12, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 76 min |
| Dec 12, 11:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Maverick, Zavala | 62 min |
| Dec 12, 11:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Gillespie, Kerr, Llano | 65 min |
| Dec 13, 12:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde, Zavala | 60 min |
| Dec 13, 12:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Llano | 44 min |
| Dec 13, 12:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 43 min |
| Dec 13, 12:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Frio, Hays and 3 more | 61 min |
| Dec 13, 1:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Medina | 63 min |
| Dec 13, 1:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall, Travis | 54 min |
| Dec 13, 2:04 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Kendall | 116 min |
| Dec 13, 2:08 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Hays, Travis, Williamson | 67 min |
| Dec 13, 2:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Atascosa, Guadalupe, Wilson | 58 min |
| Dec 13, 2:34 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 56 min |
| Dec 13, 3:16 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Lee, Wilson | 59 min |
| Dec 13, 3:25 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:09 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real, Uvalde | 3 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.