Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2000, 3:27 PM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2000, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cameron County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 162027 SVRBRO TXC061-215-489-162045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 327 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SOUTHEASTERN HIDALGO COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS EASTERN WILLACY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 322 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PROGRESO...OR NEAR MERCEDES...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... NORTHWESTERN CAMERON...SOUTHEASTERN HIDALGO AND EASTERN WILLACY COUNTIES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUcD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 2621 9800 2608 9785 2638 9746 2656 9766
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 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 245 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2000 FELIZ 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DEEP SOUTH TEXAS!!! SURFACE FRONT WILL PUSH THRU OUR FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. SURFACE PLOT SHOWING BIG ISODROSOTHERM GRADIENT WITH VICTORIA AND PALACIOS SHOWING DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 40S TO THE LOWER TO MID 70S FROM ALICE SOUTHWARD. ISOLATED CONVECTION IS OCCURRING OVER THE EASTERN CWFA AND THE COASTAL WATERS THIS AFTERNOON PRECEDING THE FRONT WITH AMPLE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH SOME WEAK LIFT. WILL INCLUDE EARLY EVENING ISOLATED SHOWERS/TSTMS FOR THE EASTERN PORTIONS. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE A LITTLE TRICKY TONIGHT DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT AND DEPTH OF DRYING TO TAKE PLACE AFTER DEBILITATED FROPA ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. TEXAS A & M ETA EXTRAPOLATIONS/AND NGM MOS GUIDANCE SHOWS MOISTURE LINGERING AT THE NEAR SURFACE WITH RH/PWAT VALUES DECREASING MARKEDLY IN THE MID/UPPER LEVELS AFTER 06Z. WILL BUMP UP OVERNIGHT LOWS JUST A COUPLE OF DEGREES THAT WHAT IS PROGNOSTICATED WITH MOISTURE STILL LINGERING AT THE NEAR SURFACE. WITH DRY ATMOSPHERE IN PLACE THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS DAYTIME HIGHS WILL BE ABLE TO CLIMB TO AROUND THE UPPER 80S EAST TO THE MIDDLE 90S FAR WEST TOMORROW. OTHERWISE...DRY AND TRANQUIL WX ON TAP WITH NORTHERLY OR NORTHEASTERLY SURFACE FLOW ON TAP WITH NE FLOW ALOFT AS UPPER HIGH REMAINS CLOSE TO THE 4-CORNERS AREA. EXTENDED RANGE...AVIATION/MRF IN ITS ANALYSIS AND ITS CURRENT COMPARISON TO GORDON IS NOT PERFORMING VERY WELL. UK/EURO SHOW MEAN 5H TROF ENCOMPASSING THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE NORTHERN CONUS WITH TWO RESPECTIVE MEAN HIGH CENTERS OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST AND A BERMUDA HIGH EAST FLORIDA. THIS WILL KEEP OUR WEATHER PATTERN FAIRLY BENIGN. WILL GO FOR CONTINUED DRY FCST AND NORMAL TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. MARINE...SURFACE GRADIENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH FRONT WILL INCREASE SEAS FOR THE OFFSHORE WATERS WITH DECOUPLING OVER THE LAGUNA OVERNIGHT. HENCE...WILL OPT FOR SCEC CONDITIONS OFFSHORE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH SCEC CONDITIONS THIS EARLY EVENING AND DURING THE DAY SUNDAY FOR THE LAGUNA. THE SURFACE NORTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE AND SHIFT EAST MONDAY AS ETA SHOWS SFC HIGH BUILDING OVER THE REGION. INCREASED WAVE HEIGHTS ARE FEASIBLE LATE MONDAY AND TUESDAY DUE TO T.S. GORDON OVER THE EASTERN GULF BUT FOR NOW WILL KEEP SEAS AROUND 5 FEET. SYNOPTIC...CORDERO (64) MESO...JW (62) HMT...ABBOTT .WFO BRO INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO BRO UU 066/089 065/091 067 10/00/00/00 MFE UU 065/091 063/093 067 10/00/00/00 RGC UU 062/095 060/097 062 10/00/00/00 SPI UU 069/085 068/086 069 05/00/00/00 .BRO...SCEC OFFSHORE ZNS...SCEC FOR LAGUNA MADRE ZN THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.