Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 7, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kenedy County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 080117 SVRBRO TXC261-080200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 815 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 809 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE RURAL SECTIONS OF KENEDY COUNTY... MOVING SOUTH AT 20 TO 25 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... EASTERN KENEDY AND SOUTHEASTERN KENEDY COUNFTIES. $$ LAT...LON 2666 9762 2662 9736 2709 9734 2715 9773 CORDERO
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 Jun 7, 7:55 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 7:55 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 755 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING WITH GREATEST THREAT NOW SHIFTING OVER NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH 9 PM. BOWING SQUALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY AND NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF BROOKS COUNTY. MARINE...SE WINDS NEAR 15 KNOTS WITH 4 FOOT WAVES OFFSHORE. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR BOWING LINE OF SHOWERS OFFSHORE. WILL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AS NEEDED. SYNOPTIC-PUBLIC...MC.61/AVIATION-MARINE...SC.64 MESO...MARTINEZ INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...SVR TSTM WATCH IN IN EFFECT FOR DEEP SOUTH TX TIL 02Z.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ248-252-253-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 217 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE SOUTH TOWARDS THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. AS THIS DISTURBANCE INTERACTS WITH A WEAK BOUNDARY ACROSS BROOKS AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER WESTERN SECTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AFTER 4 PM...MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 77. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. EAST OF HIGHWAY 77...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE SEA BREEZE. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. HOWEVER...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. RESIDENTS ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...INCLUDING ZAPATA...JIM HOGG...BROOKS...STARR...AND HIDALGO COUNTIES SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. CASTILLO/MCGUIRE
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
TXZ248>257-080200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 355 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 3:45 PM UNTIL 9 PM CDT. HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BROOKS...CAMERON... HIDALGO...JIM HOGG...KENEDY...STARR...WILLACY AND ZAPATA. SOME CITIES AND TOWNS INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE HEBBRONVILLE... ZAPATA...FALFURRIAS...SARITA...RAYMONDVILLE...RIO GRANDE CITY... MCALLEN...HARLINGEN AND BROWNSVILLE. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.