Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2001, 9:12 PM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 8, 2001, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1900 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 090216 SVRBRO TXC061-090300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 912 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 906 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PALM VALLEY...OR NEAR LA FERIA...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE NICKEL SIZE HAIL... AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SAN BENITO BY 925 PM CDT. LOS FRESNOS BY 945 PM CDT AND 9 BROWNSVILLE BY 955 PM CDT. $$ LAT...LON 2626 9719 2613 9786 2580 9778 2594 9706 PHILO
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 8, 2:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 250 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001 SHORT TERM...REMNANTS OF ALLISON HAVE SHIFTED WESTWARD TODAY JUST TO THE SOUTHWEST OF KCLL. ALMOST SIMILAR SITUATION AS YESTERDAY WITH THE LOWER AND UPPER LEVEL LOW TRAPPED BETWEEN THE RIDGE OVER THE SW U.S. AND RIDGE OVER THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO. DEFORMATION ZONE HAS SHIFTED EASTWARD TODAY WITH ANOTHER CYCLONIC VORTICITY CENTER EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO DEEP SOUTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH SEABREEZE DEVELOPING...BELIEVE SEVERE THREAT TO BE CONFINED TO THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA AS UPPER LEVEL ENERGY COMBINES WITH SURFACE CONVERGENCE ALONG SEABREEZE. GREATEST THREAT LIKELY DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. WITH SLOW MOVING STORMS...HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY AS WELL. WILL KEEP SEVERE WORDING MAINLY EAST AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AREA WIDE. MODELS HAVE BEEN DIVERGENT ON MOVEMENT OF THE REMAINS OF ALLISON. BELIEVE TREND HAS THE LOWER LEVEL FEATURE DRIFTING OVER THE COASTAL BEND THIS WEEKEND. THIS SCENARIO KEEPS CLOUDS AND RAIN CHANCES FOR THE VALLEY. WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE MAX TEMPS...DECREASE POPS...AND DECREASE CLD COVER AS UPPER RIDGE OVER THE SW U.S. AMPLIFIES PROVIDING SUBSIDENT AIR ON SUNDAY. EXTENDED...12Z AVN RUN KEEPS 700MB LOW FEATURE OVER THE COASTAL BEND MONDAY AND THEN TAKES THE REMAINING MOISTURE NORTHWARD INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AS SURFACE LOW DEVELOPS EAST OF THE ROCKYS WITH AN UPPER TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN U.S. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW REMAINS OVER THE UPPER TX COAST TUESDAY. WILL TREND DECREASING RAIN CHANCES FOR NOW...AS UPPER LOW BECOMES ELONGATED OR ABSORBED INTO UPPER TROUGH. MARINE...SEAS 2 FEET OFFSHORE WITH LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS. WINDS AND SEAS IN THE SHORT TERM DEPENDENT ON REMAINS OF ALLISON. NO FLAGS EXPECTED FOR TONIGHT. WITH LOW LEVEL FEATURE OVER THE COASTAL BEND...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WINDS AND SEAS TO INCREASE IN THE EXTENDED WITH PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENING OVER THE LOWER TEXAS COAST IN RESPONSE TO SFC LOW OVER THE SRN PLAINS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BRO EB 076/091 075/093 075 34332 HRL EB 074/092 073/094 073 34332 MFE EB 076/093 075/095 075 34332 RGC EB 074/095 073/097 073 34332 SPI EB 077/085 076/085 076 34332 AVIATION-MARINE (LEAD)...57.KN/SYNOPTIC-PUBLIC...61.MC MESO...WATKINS INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:11 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
TXZ255>257-082215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 411 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER BROWNSVILLE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN BROWNSVILLE SHOWS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN LOCATED OVER BROWNSVILLE NOW. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTHWEST AND WILL BRING HEAVY RAINFALL TO AREAS OF BROWNSVILLE. EXPECT PONDING ON AREA ROADWAYS DURING YOUR NIGHTTIME COMMUTE...AND DRIVE WITH EXTRA CAUTION. PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Willacy | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Willacy | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 37 min |
Nearby
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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.