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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 22, 2016, 2:22 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 23, 2016, 2:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2016, 2:22 PM CST (20:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2016, 2:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2016, 7:53 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
421 WWUS74 KBRO 222022 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 222 PM CST MON FEB 22 2016 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TUESDAY... .THE ARRIVAL OF A COLD FRONT WITH STRONG HIGH PRESSURE AND A TIGHT GRADIENT IN ITS WAKE WILL RESULT IN A FEW HOURS OF READINGS MEETING WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. TXZ248>251-230600- /O.NEW.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.160223T2000Z-160224T0400Z/ ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS... SARITA 222 PM CST MON FEB 22 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 10 PM CST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 10 PM CST TUESDAY. * TIMING...EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON TO TUESDAY EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST TO NORTH 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOVE LIGHT AND MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS PATIO FURNITURE...EMPTY TRASH CANS...AND PORTABLE BASKETBALL POSTS... INDOORS. 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
029 WWUS74 KBRO 230554 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1154 PM CST MON FEB 22 2016 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TUESDAY... .THE ARRIVAL OF A COLD FRONT WITH STRONG HIGH PRESSURE AND A TIGHT GRADIENT IN ITS WAKE WILL RESULT IN A FEW HOURS OF READINGS MEETING WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA OVER THE NORTHERN RANCHLANDS. TXZ248>251-231400- /O.CON.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.160223T2000Z-160224T0400Z/ ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS... SARITA 1154 PM CST MON FEB 22 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 10 PM CST TUESDAY... * TIMING...EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON TO TUESDAY EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST TO NORTH 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOVE LIGHT AND MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS PATIO FURNITURE...EMPTY TRASH CANS...AND PORTABLE BASKETBALL POSTS... INDOORS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 39 MPH FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS...AND OR FREQUENT GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. && $$
801 WWUS74 KBRO 231617 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1017 AM CST TUE FEB 23 2016 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS DEVELOPING LATER TODAY... .THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT TODAY WILL ALLOW STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TO SPREAD ACROSS POSTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TODAY. THESE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL LINGER INTO THE EVENING HOURS AND WILL EVENTUALLY WEAKEN LATER TONIGHT. TXZ248>251-240015- /O.CON.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.160223T2000Z-160224T0400Z/ ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS... SARITA 1017 AM CST TUE FEB 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM CST THIS EVENING... * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST TO NORTH 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOVE LIGHT AND MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS PATIO FURNITURE...EMPTY TRASH CANS...AND PORTABLE BASKETBALL POSTS... INDOORS. 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. && $$
672 WWUS74 KBRO 240153 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 753 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016 ...WINDS WEAKENING WITH STILL SOME GUSTY PERIODS EXPECTED... .WINDS ARE WEAKENING SLIGHTLY THIS EVENING WITH SUSTAINED WINDS AT ADVISORY LEVELS NOT EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. HOWEVER SOME PERIODS OF STRONGER GUSTS MAY RESULT IN SOME GUST OVER 30 MPH TONIGHT. TXZ248>251-240300- /O.CAN.KBRO.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-160224T0400Z/ ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS... SARITA 753 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTHWEST TO NORTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS 30 TO 35 MPH. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 8:08 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:18 AM CST | Gale Watch | BRO | 20 hr | |
| Feb 22, 2:13 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 31 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.