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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1987, 5:47 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1987, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1987, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hidalgo County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1624 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 142247 RRA TORBRO TXC215-142345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 547 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF EXTREME SOUTH TEXAS...SOUTHERN HIDALGO AT 544 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE MCALLEN AIRPORT MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND FOR 3 TO 4 MINUTES BEFORE IT LIFTED BACK INTO THE CLOUD. BROWNSVILLE RADAR SHOWS VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MCALLEN TEXAS AND EXTENDING TO NEAR SAN BENITO...MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM..GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUILDING. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS REGARDING THIS SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 14, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 250 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST CAMERON COUNTY... AT 235 PM CDT...BROWNSVILLE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...IN SOUTHEAST CAMERON COUNTY... FROM NEAR PORT ISABEL TO NEAR LOS FRESNOS AND BROWNSVILLE. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO MEXICO FOR 50 TO 100 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROWNSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND REPORTED OVER AN INCH AND ONE THIRD...1.36...FROM THE THUNDERSTORM THIS AFTERNOON. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN PORT ISABEL AND MINOR STREET FLOODING AT SOUTH PADRE ISLAND. HEAVY RAINS... GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MARINE INTERESTS OFF THE EXTREME LOWER TEXAS COAST SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE COASTAL AREAS FROM SOUTH OF BAFFIN BAY TO RIO HONDO. OTHERS WERE IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS BETWEEN FALFURRIAS AND HEBBRONVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS ALSO SOUTHEST AT 5 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
BULLETIN URBAN FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 325 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAINS IN BROWNSVILLE... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS DUMPED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN WITHIN THE PAST HALF HOUR IN BROWNSVILLE. GUSTS TO 35 MPH ALSO ACCOMPANIED THE THUNDERSTORM. THE VERY HEAVY RAINS IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS IN BROWNSVILLE AND SURROUNDING COUNTY ROADS. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND ALSO REPORTED 1.36 INCHES EARLIER ALONG WITH STREET FLOODING IN PORT ISABEL AND SOUTH PADRE ISLAND. MOTORIST SHOULD AVOID CROSSING ROADS WHERE THE WATER IS OVER THE CURB OR THE DEPTH OF THE WATER IS UNKNOWN. THE THUNDERSTFORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH...WITH THE HEAVY RAINS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 445 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AT 435 PM CDT...BROWNSVILLE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...FROM JUST WEST OF BROWNSVILLE TO NEAR LOS INDIOS... FROM RAYMONDVILLE TO RACHAL TO NORTH STARR COUNTY...AND NEAR AND WEST OF FALCON LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. BROWNSVILLE RECORDED 2.35 INCHES OF RAIN IN WITHIN AN HOUR FROM A THUNDERSTORM THIS AFTERNOON. FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADS IS LIKELY WHERE THE HEAVIER RAINS FALL. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST MEXICO...SOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE RIVER FROM FALCON LAKE TO BROWNSVILLE...AND EXTENDING SOUTH TO NEAR CIUDAD VICTORIA. OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OFF THE LOWER TEXAS COAST FROM 50 TO 150 MILES NORTHEAST TO EAST OF BROWNSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS ALSO SOUTHEAST AT 10 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.