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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2000, 11:11 AM CDT for Brooks County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
- May 2, 2000, 11:11 AM CDT (16:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2000, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Brooks County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBRO 021611 TORBRO TXC047-021645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1111 AM CDT TUE MAY 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 AM CDT * AT 1112 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR FALFURRIAS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... NORTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTY. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IN IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENxT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. LAT...LON 2726 9845 2705 9837 2716 9801 2725 9806
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Starr | 40 min |
| May 1, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Starr | 43 min |
| May 1, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 43 min |
| May 1, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr | 28 min |
| May 2, 1:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks | 37 min |
| May 2, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 57 min |
| May 2, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 62 min |
| May 2, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 58 min |
| May 2, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 60 min |
| May 2, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 60 min |
| May 2, 11:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 29 min |
| May 2, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 63 min |
| May 2, 11:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 58 min |
| May 2, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 46 min |
| May 2, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 59 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.