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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 2, 2000Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2000, 7:52 PM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
23 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), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2587 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2587 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
5.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KBRO 030052
TORBRO
TXC061-489-030115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
752 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WILLACY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS
  NORTHEASTERN CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  RIO HONDO...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARLINGEN...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  NORTHERN CAMERON...SOUTHEASTERN WILLACY AND NORTHEASTERN CAMERON
  COUNTIES.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 2626 9761 2618 9744 2645 9715r 2662 9734

$$

NEWMAN

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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.