Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 1, 2000Jim Hogg County, Texas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 1, 9:09 PM CDTHail 1Guerra, TX
May 1, 9:19 PM CDTHail 1Guerra, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1208 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo, Starr40 min
May 1, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks, Hidalgo, Starr43 min
May 1, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningBROBrooks, Jim Hogg, Starr28 min
May 2, 1:08 AM CDTTornado WarningBROBrooks37 min
May 2, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks, Kenedy57 min
May 2, 2:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROBrooks, Kenedy4 hr
May 2, 2:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks, Kenedy62 min
May 2, 4:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks, Kenedy58 min
May 2, 5:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROKenedy60 min
May 2, 6:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROJim Hogg60 min
May 2, 11:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks29 min
May 2, 11:11 AM CDTTornado WarningBROBrooks34 min
May 2, 11:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROJim Hogg63 min
May 2, 11:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROKenedy58 min
May 2, 11:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks46 min
May 2, 12:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROKenedy59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.