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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 21, 2016, 4:54 AM CST for Jim Hogg County, Zapata County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 21, 2016, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2016, 4:54 AM CST (10:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2016, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2016, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Jim Hogg County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted.
123 WWUS74 KBRO 211054 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 454 AM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...STRONG POSTFRONTAL WINDS FOR THE UPPER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON... .HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN BEHIND A COLD FRONT ARRIVING THIS AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS. TXZ248-212100- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0003.160121T1900Z-160121T2100Z/ ZAPATA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ZAPATA 454 AM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON. * WINDS...GUSTY NORTHWEST 30 TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY EXPERIENCE ADVERSE DRIVING CONDITIONS. UNSECURED ITEMS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND AND POSSIBLY DAMAGED. 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. && $$ 54
2 follow-up statements
164 WWUS74 KBRO 211537 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 937 AM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...STRONG POST FRONTAL WINDS FOR THE UPPER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT TO COMBINE WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN WAKE OF THIS STORM SYSTEM TO PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON. TXZ249-212300- /O.EXB.KBRO.WI.Y.0003.160121T1800Z-160121T2300Z/ JIM HOGG- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...HEBBRONVILLE 937 AM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON. * WINDS...GUSTY NORTHWEST 30 TO 35 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY EXPERIENCE ADVERSE DRIVING CONDITIONS. UNSECURED ITEMS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND AND POSSIBLY DAMAGED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS...AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$ TXZ248-212300- /O.EXT.KBRO.WI.Y.0003.160121T1800Z-160121T2300Z/ ZAPATA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ZAPATA 937 AM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON. * WINDS...GUSTY NORTHWEST 30 TO 35 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY EXPERIENCE ADVERSE DRIVING CONDITIONS. UNSECURED ITEMS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND AND POSSIBLY DAMAGED. 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. && $$ GB
152 WWUS74 KBRO 212317 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 517 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...NORTHWEST WINDS SLOWLY DIMINISHING... .SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT THE STRONG WINDS THAT AFFECTED ZAPATA AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES TODAY BEHIND A COLD FRONT ARE SLOWLY DIMINISHING...AND HAVE FALLEN BELOW ESTABLISHED WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. THEREFORE THE ADVISORY...PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS EVENING...HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AND IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. TXZ248-249-220030- /O.EXP.KBRO.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-160121T2300Z/ ZAPATA-JIM HOGG- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...HEBBRONVILLE 517 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ALLOWED THE WIND ADVISORY...WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR ZAPATA AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS EVENING..TO EXPIRE. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT MODERATE AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS FROM NOW AND THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 3:32 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 18 hr | |
| Jan 21, 10:14 AM CST | Gale Warning | BRO | 23 hr | |
| Jan 21, 12:19 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 21 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.