Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 2000, 7:10 PM CST for Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Nov 5, 2000, 7:10 PM CST (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Zapata County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 060111 SVRBRO TXC505-060230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 710 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ZAPATA COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 706 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAN YGNACIO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ZAPATA BY 715 PM CST. ESCOBA BY 750 PM CST. $$ LAT...LON 2724 9973 2682 9934 2695 9899 2732 9898 JP
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 Nov 5, 7:03 PM CST, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 7:03 PM CST, 7 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 703 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 STLT AND RADAR IMAGES ARE KEEPING SHRAS/TSRAS GENERALLY N OF THE VLY NOW...AS THE UPPER TROF DIG INTO THE BIG BEND AND LIFTS NE OVR MS VLY RIDGE. RUC...AND OTHER MDLS ARE HOLDING AGGRESSIVE PVA UNTIL 06Z-12Z...WITH LOBE DEEP INTO CENTRAL MEX TO THE VLY. REFORMATION...OR A CONTINUED DIG OF CONVECTION MAY OCCUR OVERNIGHT. ATTM...SPC IN AGREEMENT AS TO NEGATING WW FOR DEEP S TX...BUT CONDITIONS CUD CHANGE DURING EARLY MRNG HOURS. NOT ENUF CONFIDENCE TO DEVIATE FM CURRENT FCST...AND WL LEAVE ZFPBRO UNCHANGED. MARINE...BOY020 SHOWS WAVES HAVE FINALLY RESPONDED TO STRONG SE FLOW...UP TO 7 FT NOW. SCA REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT. SYN...PHILO 58/MESO...FLATT 55/MET INTERN...CASTILLO 61 INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...SCA FOR ALL MARINE ZONES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 5:10 PM CST, 2 hours before
TXZ248>257-060700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 510 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TONIGHT... A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL MOVE ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT. THIS LOW PRESSURE AREA AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES EMBEDDED WITHIN THE SQUALL LINE WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. A STRONG JET STREAM WILL MOVE OVER SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT AND SUPPLY THE LIFT NEEDED FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM...HEAVY RAINFALL COULD OCCUR LEADING TO PONDING OF WATER AND IN SOME INSTANCES FLASH FLOODING. MOTORISTS NEED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION WHILE DRIVING TONIGHT. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR WATER ON ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE...WITH HIGHER TOTALS IN ISOLATED LOCATIONS. THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE OFF THE TEXAS COAST BY EARLY MONDAY MORNING...WITH CLEARING SKIES EXPECTED BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND MONITOR THE LATEST ST8ATEMENTS AND FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE. COMMERCIAL RADIO...TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER ARE ALTERNATE SOURCES OF WEATHER INFORMATION. PHILO
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 5:30 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
TXZ248>257-060700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 530 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TONIGHT... A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL MOVE ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT. THIS LOW PRESSURE AREA AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES EMBEDDED WITHIN THE SQUALL LINE WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. A STRONG JET STREAM WILL MOVE OVER SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT AND SUPPLY THE LIFT NEEDED FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM...HEAVY RAINFALL COULD OCCUR LEADING TO PONDING OF WATER AND IN SOME INSTANCES FLASH FLOODING. MOTORISTS NEED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION WHILE DRIVING TONIGHT. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR WATER ON ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE...WITH HIGHER TOTALS IN ISOLATED LOCATIONS. THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE OFF THE TEXAS COAST BY EARLY MONDAY MORNING...WITH CLEARING SKIES EXPECTED BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND MONITOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE. COMMERCIAL RADIO...TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER ARE ALTERNATE SOURCES OF WEATHER INFORMATION. PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 80 min |
| Nov 6, 12:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 43 min |
| Nov 6, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr | 45 min |
| Nov 6, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 45 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.