Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 1996, 3:29 AM CDT for Jim Hogg County, Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 1996, 3:29 AM CDT (08:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 1996, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jim Hogg County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 2537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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.
NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 19, 2:43 AM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 2:43 AM CDT, 46 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WEATHER FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 240 AM CDT THU SEP 19 1996 ETA ONLY MODEL WITH HANDLE ON SITUATION AS IT IS PANNING OUT NOW. IT CONTS TO ACCUMULATE 3/4 INCH OF RAIN THRU 48 HRS WHILE NGM PRECIP IS NEGLIGIBLE AND ITS FWC POPS ONLY NR 10 PCT. LOTS OF ACTVTY ON 88D SCOPE CURRENTLY...AN INDCTN OF VORT MAX BEING EFFECTIVE WX PRODUCER. STG STORMS IN WRN VALLEY DUMPED 8+ INCHES OF RAIN IN ZAPATA COUNTY WITH 4 INCHES OF THAT DURG EVE AND ANOTHER 4 INCHES IN PAST HOUR... OVR ERN ZAPATA S OF HIWAY 16...MSTLY UNPOPULATED AREA. WILL CNSDR A FLASH FLOOD WRNG DUE TO THIS RADAR RAIN ESTIMATE. SATL LOOP CONTS TO SHOW CNVCTN FIRING FROM MEXICO UP TO E TX ALONG THIS ELONGATED POS VORT AREA. POPS SHUD BE RAISED TO AT LEAST 40 PCT TDA ACRS DEEP S TX. MUCH OF VORT MAX TO MOVE E OF HERE ON FRI SO POPS CAN BE LOWERED TO 20 PCT THEN. WILL LOWER MAX TEMPS A SHADE FROM FWC WHILE MINS WILL STAY ABOVE FWC VALUES EXCPT IN RAIN-COOLED AREAS. FNT STILL NOT EXPCTD TO RCH VALLEY...LKLY WILL WASH OUT IN S CNTRL TX AS SFC HI OVR ROCKIES WEAKENS AND UPR TROF NOT HAVING ENUF SWD EXTENTION TO GIVE SUPPORT FOR FROPA. 57 SUGGESTED NUMBERS: BRO EB 091/078 092/078 092 40/20/20/10 MFE EB 093/078 095/078 095 40/20/20/10 RGC EB 095/078 097/078 097 40/20/20/10 SPI EB 088/080 089/080 089 40/20/20/10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 5:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 4 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.