Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1999, 8:49 PM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1999, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1999, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebbronville, TX | Wind damage to residence. |
| May 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Falfurrias, TX | Large tree loimbs down. |
| May 26, 9:48 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Falfurrias Arpt, TX | Roofs blown off three hangers. |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1680 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 65 min |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 36 min |
| May 26, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.