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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 30, 1995Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1995, 6:26 PM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1995, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3475 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
9.1

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The text

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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, May 30, 5:53 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
TXZ248-249-250-251-252-253-254-255-514-302345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
548 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS
   UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

AT 545 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN BROWNSVILLE INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE
TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME NORTHEASTERN ZAPATA COUNTY
THROUGH NORTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 25 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF
40 MPH AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL ACROSS PORTIONS OF ZAPATA...JIM HOGG AND
BROOKS COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

THE POTENTIAL FOR INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS DEEfP
SOUTH TEXAS THROUGH 9 PM TONIGHT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS
IN THE EVENT OF ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

TRS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks, Jim Hogg61 min
May 30, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROStarr, Zapata56 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.