Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1995, 12:43 AM CDT for Brooks County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1995, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brooks County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 3123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBRO 110545 RRA SVRBRO TXC047-110645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1243 AM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...BROOKS COUNTY AT 1240 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST JIM HOGG COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING ACROSS BROOKS COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 10, 11:59 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1133 PM CDT MON APR 11 1995 ...RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AT 1133 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINING TO DEVELOP OVER NORTH WEBB COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEEN OVER CENTRAL TEXAS EARLIER TONIGHT AND ARE NOW BEGINGING TO MOVE INTO DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THE MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY AS WELL AS DAGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 12:40 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1225 PM CDT MON APR 11 1995 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AT 1225 PM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF ZAPATA TO SOUTHERN DUVAL COUNTY TO JUST WEST OF ROBSTOWN. THE MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 12:42 AM CDT, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION FOR DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1225 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AT 1225 PM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF ZAPATA TO SOUTHERN DUVAL COUNTY TO JUST WEST OF ROBSTOWN. THE MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
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.