Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2017
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 10, 2017, 5:39 AM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 10, 2017, 7:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2017, 5:39 AM CST (11:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 10, 2017, 7:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2017, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
397 WWUS74 KEWX 101139 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 539 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 TXZ173-191>194-205>209-221>225-101900- /O.NEW.KEWX.WI.Y.0001.170110T1300Z-170110T1900Z/ WILLIAMSON-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL- FAYETTE-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGETOWN...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN... BASTROP...GIDDINGS...SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN... LOCKHART...LA GRANGE...FLORESVILLE...KARNES CITY...GONZALES... CUERO...HALLETSVILLE 539 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...7AM THROUGH 1PM THIS AFTERNOON * WINDS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH AT TIMES FROM THE SOUTH TO SOUTH-SOUTHWEST. * IMPACTS...DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY BE DIFFICULT ON EAST AND WEST TRAVELING ROADS. HIGH WINDS COULD DISPLACE LOOSE OBJECTS AND COULD RESULT IN MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ ALLEN
1 follow-up statement
166 WWUS74 KEWX 101648 NPWEWX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1048 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 TXZ173-191-192-205>208-221>225-101800- /O.CAN.KEWX.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-170110T1900Z/ WILLIAMSON-HAYS-TRAVIS-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-WILSON- KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA- 1048 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL REMAIN BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERION SO THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ TXZ193-194-209-101900- /O.CON.KEWX.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-170110T1900Z/ BASTROP-LEE-FAYETTE- 1048 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...7AM THROUGH 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON * WINDS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH AT TIMES FROM THE SOUTH TO SOUTH-SOUTHWEST. * IMPACTS...DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY BE DIFFICULT ON EAST AND WEST TRAVELING ROADS. HIGH WINDS COULD DISPLACE LOOSE OBJECTS AND COULD RESULT IN MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ GW
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.