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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 27, 2024, 1:52 AM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 27, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2024, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 27, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 2287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Apr 26, 6:39 PM CDT, 7 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 6:39 PM CDT, 7 hours 13 minutes before
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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.