Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1987, 1:28 PM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1987, 1:28 PM CDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1987, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cameron County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:07 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cameron, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 2616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBRO 031828
SVRBRO
TXC061-489-031930-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
128 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH TEXAS
...CAMERON...WILLACY
AT 130 PM CDT...AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM JUST NORTH
OF PORT MANSFIELD TO NEAR EDCOUCH TEXAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
20 MPH.
STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED NORTH OF HARLINGEN. POSSIBLE
FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE ALSO BEEN SIGHTED NORTH OF LA FERIA TEXAS MOVING
TO THE SOUTHEAST.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 10:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1035 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1987 AT 1025 AM... BROWNSVILLE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN. THE AREA WAS
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1145 AM CDT WED JUN 3 1987 AT 1125 AM... BROWNSVILLE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN. THE AREA WAS FROM 15 MILES WEST OF CORPUS CHRISTI SOUTHWEST TO 40 MILES WEST OF MCALLEN. THE AREA WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND HAIL. ALSO LOCAL STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THE AREA IS MOVING THROUGH THE VALLEY AND AT THE PRESENT MOVEMENT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE ENTIRE VALLEY WITHIN 3 HOURS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A MINOR DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST WITH THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED NORTH OF THE VALLEY. ALICE REPORTED WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH WHILE LAREDO RECEIVED WIND TO 40 MPH.
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.