Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1993, 2:58 AM CDT for Hidalgo County, Starr County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1993, 2:58 AM CDT (07:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1993, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hidalgo County, TX, Starr County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 719 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 8, 1:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
TXZ041-042-043-044-080750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 145 AM CDT THU APR 8 1993 AT 130 AM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF HEBBRONSVILLE AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ZAPATA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THESE STORMS. OTHERWISE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTH TEXAS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ZAPATA TO KINGSVILLE. THIS AREA EXTENDED INTO NORTHEAST MEXICO FOR AT LEAST 100 MILES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS BEING MONITORED BY THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MAY BE ISSUED FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 1:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
TXZ041-042-043-044-080750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 145 AM CDT THU APR 8 1993 AT 130 AM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF HEBBRONSVILLE AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ZAPATA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THESE STORMS. OTHERWISE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTH TEXAS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ZAPATA TO KINGSVILLE. THIS AREA EXTENDED INTO NORTHEAST MEXICO FOR AT LEAST 100 MILES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS BEING MONITORED BY THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MAY BE ISSUED FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 36 min |
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.