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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2000, 4:54 PM CST for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2000, 4:54 PM CST (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hidalgo County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 5:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Elsa, TX | A bow echo complex produced damaging thunderstorm winds that blew over a canopy located above the fuel pumps at the economy store near Elsa and these damaging winds knocked down power lines in nearby Edcouch. |
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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 142300 SVRBRO TXC215-150000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 454 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HIDALGO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ALAMO...DONNA...EDCOUCH...EDINBURG... MCALLEN...MERCEDES...MISSION...PHARR...SAN JUAN...WESLACO...HIDALGO * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 455 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF HIDALGO...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST PORTION OF THE STORM IS IN EXTREME NORTHERN MEXICO BUT WITH THE EASTWARD MOVEMENT...EXTREMELY STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 65 MPH MAY AFFECT SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF HIDALGO COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM. HAIL AND BLINDING DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO LIKELY. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BROWNSVILLE. LAT...LON 2639 9842 2599 9848 2594 9790 2636 9788
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 1:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 45 min |
| Mar 14, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 62 min |
| Mar 14, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 3:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 59 min |
| Mar 14, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 67 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.