Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2001, 8:34 PM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cameron County, TX, Willacy 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1803 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 080133 RRA SVRBRO TXC061-489-080215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 834 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
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, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 7:55 PM CDT, 39 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, 3:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 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, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 45 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.