Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 23, 2016, 3:37 AM CDT for Kleberg County, Nueces County, San Patricio County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 23, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2016, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 23, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
227 WWUS74 KCRP 230837 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 337 AM CDT WED MAR 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE SOUTHERN COASTAL COUNTIES... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT AND DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE WILL BRING WINDY CONDITIONS AND RATHER STRONG WIND GUSTS TO NUECES AND KLEBERG COUNTIES LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL DIMINISH SLIGHTLY WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. TXZ242>244-232030- /O.NEW.KCRP.WI.Y.0007.160323T1600Z-160324T0000Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KINGSVILLE...CORPUS CHRISTI... PORTLAND...INGLESIDE...ARANSAS PASS...SINTON...MATHIS 337 AM CDT WED MAR 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE COUNTIES OF NUECES...KLEBERG AND SAN PATRICIO. * TIMING...11 AM CDT THROUGH 7 PM CDT TODAY. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS 25 TO 35 KNOTS WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 KNOTS * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL BLOW AROUND LOOSE OBJECTS AND MAY DAMAGE WEAK TREES. THESE WINDS WILL ALSO MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SUCH AS TRUCKS...BUSES AND VANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GREATER... OR WIND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ GW
2 follow-up statements
427 WWUS74 KCRP 231954 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 254 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE SOUTHERN COASTAL COUNTIES... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT AND DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE WILL BRING WINDY CONDITIONS AND RATHER STRONG WIND GUSTS TO NUECES AND KLEBERG COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL DIMINISH SLIGHTLY WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. TXZ242>244-240000- /O.CON.KCRP.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-160324T0000Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KINGSVILLE...CORPUS CHRISTI... PORTLAND...INGLESIDE...ARANSAS PASS...SINTON...MATHIS 254 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...NOW THROUGH 7 PM CDT TODAY. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL BLOW AROUND LOOSE OBJECTS AND MAY DAMAGE WEAK TREES. THESE WINDS WILL ALSO MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SUCH AS TRUCKS...BUSES AND VANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GREATER... OR WIND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
615 WWUS74 KCRP 232354 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 654 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2016 TXZ242>244-240100- /O.EXP.KCRP.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-160324T0000Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KINGSVILLE...CORPUS CHRISTI... PORTLAND...INGLESIDE...ARANSAS PASS...SINTON...MATHIS 654 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THERE COULD BE A A FEW ISOLATED HIGHER GUSTS THIS EVENING BUT THE OVERALL TREND WILL BE FOR DECREASING WINDS AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. $$
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.