Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT for Cameron County, Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 3143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -2.0
- Supercell composite
- -8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBRO 050103 RRA SVRBRO TXC061-215-050200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 800 PM CDT TUE APR 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...CAMERON COUNTY...HIDALGO COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE LOWER TEXAS COAST THE BAY WATERS OF THE LAGUNA MADRE AT 800 PM..RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF MCALLEN MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 15 MPH. DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL LIKELY ACCOMPANIES THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 4, 7:25 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
TXZ248>255-514-050125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 725 PM CDT TUE APR 4 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF ZAPATA...JIM HOGG...BROOKS...AND KENEDY UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 725 PM..RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM GULF WATERS EAST OF BAFFIN BAY..EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NEAR MCALLEN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 10 MPH. RADAR ALSO SHOWED A GROUP OF THUNDERSTORMS IN MEXICO ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROWNSVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 15 MPH AND BEAR WATCH FOR STRONG WIND..HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS OVER PORTIONS OF HIDALGO..CAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTIES. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER..ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 7:27 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
TXZ248>255-514-050125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 725 PM CDT TUE APR 4 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF ZAPATA...JIM HOGG...BROOKS...AND KENEDY UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 725 PM..RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM GULF WATERS EAST OF BAFFIN BAY..EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NEAR MCALLEN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 10 MPH. RADAR ALSO SHOWED A GROUP OF THUNDERSTORMS IN MEXICO ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROWNSVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 15 MPH AND BEAR WATCH FOR STRONG WIND..HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS OVER PORTIONS OF HIDALGO..LCAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTIES. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER..ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE.
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.