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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 20, 2024Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this wind advisory at Jun 20, 2024, 3:37 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2024, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
8 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 08:40 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 71 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1714 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
6.4

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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 Jun 20, 12:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 12:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningBROHidalgo35 min
Jun 19, 9:12 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO18 min
Jun 19, 11:02 PM CDTTornado WarningBROWillacy16 min
Jun 20, 4:06 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBRO39 hr

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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.