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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Brownsville, TX

August 22, 2000Cameron County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2000, 2:44 PM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
Aug 22, 2000, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Cameron County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 29 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 12:00Z on 2000-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1465 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1465 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBRO 221950
TORBRO

TXC061-222015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...RETRANSMISSION FOR MEDIA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
244 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 240 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF SAN
  BENITO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR...
   HARLINGEN BY 305 PM CDT.
   LA FERIA...COMBES...SANTA ROSA BY 315 PM CDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IN IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

$$

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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.