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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2000, 8:47 PM CDT for Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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 1, 2000, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Hogg County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:09 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Guerra, TX | |
| May 1, 9:19 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Guerra, 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 May 1, 1:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 1:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 17 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 130 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2000 DO NOT PLAN TO CHANGE FORECAST MUCH. STORM CHANCES HERE APPEAR SIGNIFICANT AS UPPER LOW IN OKLAHOMA MEANDERS SOUTHEAST THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. LOW HAS A CONVECTIVE HISTORY. FOR A PERIOD...BACK SIDE OF THE LOW WILL BE UNSTABLE BEFORE AIR SUBSIDES AND DRIES WEST OF THE LOW. BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN HERE SEEM TO BE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW AS LOW LEVEL GULF AIR FEEDS THE MONSTER ALOFT NEARBY BEFORE CONVERGENT AREA SHIFTS NORTHEAST TOMORROW AFTERNOOON. WILL LOWER MARINE FLAGS AS GRADIENT CONTINUES TO WEAKEN. BRO TB 073/086 070/084 070 62553 MFE TB 072/088 071/088 070 62553 RGC TB 070/089 066/089 067 62553 SPI TB 076/082 075/082 076 62553 .WFO BRO INTERNET ADDRESS... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 3:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ248>257-020200- DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 330 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2000 CHANGES FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING ARE SIGNIFICANT OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. KEEP CLOSE TABS ON THE WEATHER. A STRONG UPPER DISTURBANCE OVER NORTH TEXAS THAT HAS HAD A STORMY HISTORY IS MEANDERING SOUTHEAST. IT WILL BRING STORMY WEATHER THAN RECENTLY SLAMMED NORTH TEXAS...CLOSER TO DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT OVER SOUTH TEXAS AND APPROACH THE DEEP SOUTH. A FEW OF THESE ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. AND ISOLATED TORNADOES CAN NOT BE RULED OUT EITHER. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. ALL RESIDENTS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD KEEP UPDATED ON THE WEATHER TODAY THROUGH LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION...OR CABLE SOURCES...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Starr | 40 min |
| May 1, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Starr | 43 min |
| May 1, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr | 28 min |
| May 2, 1:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks | 37 min |
| May 2, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 57 min |
| May 2, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 62 min |
| May 2, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 58 min |
| May 2, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 60 min |
| May 2, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 60 min |
| May 2, 11:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 29 min |
| May 2, 11:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks | 34 min |
| May 2, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 63 min |
| May 2, 11:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 58 min |
| May 2, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 46 min |
| May 2, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 59 min |
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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.