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High Surf Advisory 9, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this high surf advisory at Dec 14, 2023, 3:28 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 51 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2023, 3:28 AM CST (09:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2023, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 51 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 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 (KNGP), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 3:17 PM CST | Coastal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy | 11 hr |
Nearby
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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.