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Wind Advisory 13, NWS Brownsville, TX

December 25, 2016Cameron County, Hidalgo County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 25, 2016, 1:50 PM CST for Cameron County, Hidalgo County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 25, 2016, 1:50 PM CST (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Dec 25, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

Counties Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 60 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1077 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

787 
WWUS74 KBRO 251950
NPWBRO

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
150 PM CST SUN DEC 25 2016

...STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...

.A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN
UNITED STATES WILL MAINTAIN STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS
ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STRONG
SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL THEN WEAKEN AROUND SUNSET THIS EVENING. 

TXZ253>257-260000-
/O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0013.161225T1950Z-161226T0000Z/
HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-
COASTAL CAMERON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF MCALLEN, EDINBURG, PHARR, MISSION, 
WESLACO, RAYMONDVILLE, BROWNSVILLE, HARLINGEN, PORT MANSFIELD, 
PORT ISABEL, SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, LAGUNA HEIGHTS, AND LAGUNA VISTA
150 PM CST SUN DEC 25 2016

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY, WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...FROM NOW THROUGH AROUND SUNSET THIS EVENING.

* WINDS...SOUTH WINDS 25 TO 35 WITH BRIEF GUSTS TO 35 TO 40 MPH.

* IMPACTS...KEEP LIGHT AND MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS PATIO
  FURNITURE...EMPTY TRASH CANS...AND PORTABLE BASKETBALL POSTS...
  INDOORS. HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES WILL REMAIN
  DIFFICULT TO DRIVE...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES OR OVERPASSES AND IN
  CROSSWINDS. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED.
WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR
HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

&&

$$

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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.