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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 7, 2001Zapata County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2001, 11:49 PM CDT for Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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, 11:49 PM CDT (04:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2001, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Zapata County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 311 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -96 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1030 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001

SEVERE TSTM WATCH HAS EXPIRED. HAVE UPDATED ZONES AND LOWERED POPS
FOR TONIGHT. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN
CAMERON COUNTY BRINGING AN END TO CONVECTION EAST. APPEARS ANOTHER
ROUND OF TSTMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE...DEVELOPING WEST OF ZAPATA. HAVE
KEPT SEVERE WORDING FOR WESTERN ZONES.

SYNOPTIC-PUBLIC...MC.61/AVIATION-MARINE-MESO...SC.64

INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO

.BRO...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ248>257-080300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
900 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ALLOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TO EXPIRE AT 9 PM.

EVEN THOUGH THE WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...ISOLATED TO WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MAINLY THE COASTAL COUNTIES
OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY FURNISH WIND GUSTS TO
45 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE LOWER VALLEY UNTIL 1030 PM.
STORMS THAT DO LINGER ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.

CORDERO
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ248>257-080300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
900 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ALLOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TO EXPIRE AT 9 PM.

EVEN THOUGH THE WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...ISOLATED TO WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MAINLY THE COASTAL COUNTIES
OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY FURNISH WIND GUSTS TO|
45 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE LOWER VALLEY UNTIL 1030 PM.
STORMS THAT DO LINGER ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.

CORDERO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningBROKenedy33 min
Jun 7, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROKenedy45 min
Jun 7, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron, Willacy41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.