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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2000, 4:39 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 21 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2000, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hidalgo County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1638 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
282 WUUS54 KBRO 082139 SVRBRO TXC215-082200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 439 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN HIDALGO COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 426 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MISSION...PALMVIEW...THE CITY OF HIDALGO AND SOUTHWEST MCALLEN...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND VERY...BUT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY MOVE SOUTH OF THE BORDER IN MEXICO...AROUND 500 PM CDT. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BROWNSVILLE. $$ LAT...LON 2618 9848 2607 9820 2621 9828 2622 9837 CORDERO
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 Sep 8, 1:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 1:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 130 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 2000 ALL MDLS HAVE CORRECTED THEMSELVES TO RECOGNIZING HIER POP POTENTIAL FOR TDY AND SAT NOW. ETA HAS GONE FM ISOLATED CHC TDY...TO SCT TO NUMEROUS NOW PROGD BOTH TDY AND SAT. FM CURRENT STLT PICS AND KBRO REF...WOULD AGREE WITH THE MAINTAINING OF OUR CURRENT LIKELY CAT FOR SAT. LARGE AREA OF SHRAS/TSRAS JUST SE OF POR HAS BEEN MVG NW AT 10 MPH. THIS AREA IS NOW JUST 14 MILES SE-E OF BRO AND READY TO ENCROACH COASTAL AREAS. ALSO...SCT SHRAS HAVE FORMED DURING THE PAST 30 MIN OVR NRN AND CENTRAL HIDALGO. AVN HAS INIT BEST WITH THIS UPPER LOW AND ASSOCIATED NORTHERLY TROF AXIS AND WL FOLLOW THIS SOLUTION (WHICH IS CLOSE TO ALL MDLS THINKING NOW) THRU FCST PD. NGM IS VERY WET NOW FOR LATER THIS PM AND INCREASING PCPN CHCS TO 41 PERCENT POPS SAT FM PREV RUN OF 28 PERCENT. NGM HAS 1 INCH ISOHYET OVR HIDALGO BY 7 PM THIS EVENING...WITH ALL OF THE VLY ENCOMPASSED BY 0.25 INCH ISOHYET. PCPN POTENTIALS ARE MAINTAINED TO AT LEAST 40 PERCENT THRU EARLY SAT MRNG...WITH AVN HOLDING BEST UVM FM 09 TO 12Z SAT. WL KEEP AT LEAST 40 PERCENT POPS FOR EASTERN VLY OVRNGT...20 PERCENT INLAND...WITH 60 PERCENT CHC SHRAS/TSRAS SAT. SAT NGT THRU SUN...WL MV SCT SHRAS/TSRAS TO WRN VLY...ISOLATED FOR COASTAL SECTIONS. FANBRO TEMPS USED WITH AVN SOLUTION TO SFC WIND FIELD...NE 10 MPH EARLY...BECMG LIGHT SE BY DAWN...THEN ESE 10 MPH BY SAT PM. EXTENDED...UPPER LOW SPINS ITSELF OUT OVR DEEP S TX...BECMG AN OPEN TROF EXTENDING FM VLY TO NRN TX BY MON AM. AN AREA OF DISTURBED WX NOW IN THE CENTRAL GULF HAS NOT DEFINED IT'S INTENTIONS YET...AND CUD POSE PRBLMS FOR LATE IN THE EXTENDED. CURRENT EXTENDED MDLS ARE CALLING FOR COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAFL HEADING TO THE VLY BY WED. HUR HUNTER WL INVESTIGATE THIS AREA TOMORROW FOR ORGANIZATION. BEST BET WL BE TO CONTINUE TO FOLLOW MRF SOLUTION...WHICH MIRRORS ECMWF ATTM. MARINE...BOY020 HAS SEAS DOWN TO 3 FT IN 10 KT NE FLOW. WL KEEP SEAS IN 3-4 FT RANGE THRU PD IN WEAK TO MOD ONSHORE FLOW. SCT TO NUMEROUS SHRAS/TSRAS THRU PD. OUTLOOK FOR SUN-TUE WL HIGHLITE NEED FOR CONTINUED MONITORING OF LWR GULF COAST WX. SCT SHRAS/TSRAS WL PERSIST WITH MENTION OF BACKING OF WINDS TO NE AND INCREASING BY LATE TUE. SYN/MESO...PHILO 58/HMT...MARTINEZ NUMBERS: BRO TC 075/090/076 092/078 40/60/30/30 MFE TC 074/092/075 093/076 40/60/30/30 RGD TC 074/095/073 095/074 20/60/20/20 SPI TC 077/086/077 087/079 40/60/20/20 .WFO BRO INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 3:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
TXZ248>257-082100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 312 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 2000 ...STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING MCALLEN... AT 3:05 PM...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...10 MILES EAST OF MCALLEN...HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED WITHIN THE PAST HOUR. THIS AREA WAS MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. THROUGH 4 PM...MOTORISTS IN THE MCALLEN AREA WILL BE EXPERIENCING LOCALLYQ HEAVY RAINFALL DURING THEIR EVENING COMMUTE. ROADS WILL BE SLICK AND MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN. CASTILLO/GUERRERO
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 4:00 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ248>257-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED 2ND PAR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 400 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 2000 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING HIDALGO... AT 3:50 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER ALAMO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. THROUGH 430 PM...MOTORISTS IN THE HIDALGO AREA BE PREPARED FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY W5INDS...AND LIGHTNING. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ALONG HIGHWAY 83 BETWEEN WESLACO AND MCALLEN. ROADS WILL BE SLICK AND MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN. CASTILLO/GUERRERO
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 4:18 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
TXZ253-082145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 418 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 2000 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MISSION AND HIDALGO... AT 415 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER MISSION AND THE CITY OF HIDALGO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THROUGH 445 PM...MOTORISTS AROUND THE CITY OF HIDALGO AND MISSION AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND LIGHTNING. THESE SHOWERS WILL MOVE SOUTHWEST INTO MEXICO AFTER 5 PM. CORDERO
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.