Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Brownsville, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 41 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.