Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2000, 1:05 PM CST for Brooks County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 14, 2000, 1:05 PM CST (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2000, 1:50 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brooks County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 1:26 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Falfurrias, TX |
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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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
- 514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 141907 SVRBRO TXC047-141950- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 105 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FALFURRIAS * UNTIL 150 PM CST * AT 1256 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF FALFURRIAS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FALFURRIAS AT AROUND 115 PM CST THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG WINDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OFTEN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BROWNSVILLE.
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 Mar 14, 9:05 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 9:05 AM CST, 4 hours before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 905 AM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 KBRO HAVING PROBLEMS THIS AM AND DOWN FOR 30 MINUTES...FM APPROX 8 TO 830 AM. BRO XMTR INOP THIS AM...WITH PHARR UP. SNUFFLES NOT GENERATING SVR WX PRODUCTS TO CRS....WITH SMW BEING RECORDED BY MET AND PLACED IN ROTATION. SVR TSTM MVD THRU PORT MANSFIELD WITH 34 KT GUSTS AND DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS SVR TSTM IS MVG ACROSS THE GULF WATERS OF WILLACY AND KENEDY COUNTIES ATTM WITH SMW IN PLACE. CURRENT STLT PICS SHOW LITTLE DEVELOPMENT TO THE SW OF BRO AND XPCT A RESPITE IN TSTM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SUM TSTM MVMT NEAR LRD HAS SHOWN A SE COMPONENT AND BACK-BUILDING TSTMS FM THE AREA OF ACTIVITY NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF DEEP S TX MAY BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF TSTMS TO THE VLY LATER. 3K J/KG CAPES THIS AM WITH -8.4 LI AND PWATS OF 1.55 INCH. LITTLE CAPPING IN PLACE AND CONTINUED TSTM DEVELOPMENT XPCTD DURING THE PM. FCST MAX TEMP OF 80 GENERATED BY AWIPS KBRO SKEW-T WOULD CREATE MORE AGGRESSIVE TSTM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. SR HELICITY NOT IMPRESSIVE...AT 127 M2/S2. WOULD NEED 150 OR ABOVE FOR TOR CONCERN. SERIES OF S/W WILL ROTATE THRU THE VLY...WHICH SITS IN THE WARM SECTOR WITH WARM FRONT JUST NORTH. WILL BUMP POPS TO 50% AND ADD "LOCALLY RAFL POSSIBLE"...AS MINUS BUMP WINDS TO 15 TO 20 AND GUSTY FM SE. SYN...PHILO 58/MESO...GUERRERO 52/HMT...WATKINS .BRO...SMdW FOR GULF WATERS OF KENEDY COUNTY THRU 915 AM.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 14, 12:57 PM CST, 8 minutes before
GMZ130-150-155-170-175-TXZ248>257-142050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1257 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN AREAS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF FALFURRIAS IS BUILDING SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHWESTERN BROOKS COUNTY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FORM OVER HIDALGO...BROOKS AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE AND THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITH LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SPRING BREAKERS ON SOUTH PADRE ISLAND SHOULD ALSO CONTINUE TO USE COMMON SENSE WHEN PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON. IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP NEAR YOU...REMAIN IN A SAFE PLACE UNTIL THE DANGER PASSES. PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 62 min |
| Mar 14, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 3:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 59 min |
| Mar 14, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 66 min |
| Mar 14, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.