Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Brownsville, TX

Issued

Aug 31, 1996, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)

Expired

Aug 31, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT

In force

115 min

Issued by

NWS Brownsville, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cameron County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
TTAA00 KBRO 311920
SVRBRO
TXC061-489-312115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
220 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN SOUTH TEXAS
 
   ...CAMERON COUNTY...WILLACY COUNTY
 
   AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE LOWER TEXAS COAST
   THE BAY WATERS OF THE LAGUNA MADRE
 
BROWNSVILLE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF RIO HONDO. THIS STORM IS MOVING
SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING
VERY RAPIDLY OVER WILLACY AND NORTH CAMERON COUNTIES AT THIS TIME.
 
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.
 
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.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGIFNG WIND IN 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.

NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 31, 12:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WEATHER FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1250 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 1996

NGM'S FWC OFF ON THIS ONE AND ETA GRIDDED DATA SEEMS TO REFLECT
CURRENT TORCH POTENTIAL IN VLY. TSTMS FIRE ALONG PHANTOM BNDRY...VORT.
STLT ANALYSIS...ALONG WITH MESO AND 88D BETTER DEFINE LIFTING MECH
...MSTR ADV AND VALLEY W/O CAP. SLOW MVG TSTMS DUMPED 2-3 INCHES RW
SO FAR IN SRN KENEDY CTY AND ERN CAMERON RW+. RW ALSO FIRES IN WRN
VLY. MAX VIL 45 ATTM MAINLY COASTAL SXTNS.

ETA WET FOR VLY THRU SUN AM. STILL 20% IN ORDER SUN...10% LABOR DY.
RW HVY AT TIMES TNGT WITH 30% REASONABLE. TEMPS AND WNDS FWC BIAS.
M/C SKIES THRU PD. 58

PRELIMS:
BRO 075/093/075/092 30/20/10/10
MFFE 076/095/075/095 30/20/10/10
RGD 076/096/076/096 30/20/10/10
SPI 077/086/077/087 30/20/10/10

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.