Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1994, 7:51 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 1994, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hidalgo County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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
- 383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBRO 260050 RRA SVRBRO TXC215-260200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 751 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...SOUTHERN HIDALGO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHERN HIDALGO COUNTY. STRAIGHT LINE WINDS HAVE ROLLED OVER SOME HOUSES CAUSING INJURIES. THE HIDALGO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS ASKED FOR VOLUNTEERS TO ASSIST IN EVACUATION OF THE WOUNDED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN6 EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
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, Oct 25, 5:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ248>255-514-251755- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY... CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 515 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 1994 AT 500 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... EXTENDING FROM THE ALICE... KINSVILLE... BAFFIN BAY AREA WEST SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE HEBBRONVILLE AREA AND THE FALCON LATE AREA THEN INTO MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ZAPATA. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL.... AND COULD CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW SPOTS.
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 5:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ248>255-514-251755- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY... CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 515 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 1994 AT 500 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... EXTENDING FROM THE ALICE... KINSVILLE... BAFFIN BAY AREA WEST SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE HEBBRONVILLE AREA AND THE FALCON LATE AREA THEN INTO MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ZAPATA. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL.... AND COULD CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW SPOTS.
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 5:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ248>255-514-251755- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY... CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 515 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 1994 AT 500 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... EXTENDING FROM THE ALICE... KINSVILLE... BAFFIN BAY AREA WEST SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE HEBBRONVILLE AREA AND THE FALCON LATE AREA THEN INTO MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ZAPATA. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL.... AND COULD CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW SPOTS.
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 5:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ248>255-514-252355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 540 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 1994 AT 525 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... EXTENDING FROM THE ALICE... KINGSVILLE... BAFFIN BAY AREA WEST SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE HEBBRONVILLE AREA AND THE FALCON LATE AREA THEN INTO MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ZAPATA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... AND COULD BE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW SPOTS IS LIKELY FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 5:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ248>255-514-252355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 540 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 1994 AT 525 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... EXTENDING FROM THE ALICE... KINGSVILLE... BAFFIN BAY AREA WEST SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE HEBBRONVILLE AREA AND THE FALCON LATE AREA THEN INTO MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ZAPATA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... AND COULD BE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW SPOTS IS LIKELY FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 6:52 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
TXZ248-249-250-251-252-253-254-255-514-260100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 652 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 1994 ...THUNDEERSTORMS APPROACHING THE LOWER VALLEY ARE PRODUCING GUSTY NORTH WINDS... BLOWING DUST AND LOCAL AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN... AT 630... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM THE ALICE... KINGSVILLE AREA WEST SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE FALCON LAKE AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE MCCOOK AREA AND ALSO IN MEXICO WEST OF FALCON LAKE. THE THUNDERSTORM CAUSED A WIND GUST TO 57 MPH AND BLOWING DUST AT MCCOOK AROUND 630 THIS EVENING... AND IS MOVING TOWARD THE EDINBURG AREA. GUSTY WINDS... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. AND FLOODING OF ROADS... STREETS AND LOW SPOTS IS POSSIBLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron | 62 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.