Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 3:01 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2001, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kenedy County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 2238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 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 212001 SVRBRO TXC261-212045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 301 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 256 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES EAST OF FALFURRIAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL... AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 2704 9790 2702 9779 2727 9772 2726 9794J DIXON
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 21, 9:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 9:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 930 AM CDT THU JUN 21 2001 .FORECAST DISCUSSION... WILL NOT MAKE ANY DRASTIC CHANGES TO CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE. THIS MORNINGS SOUNDING MEASURED PWAT AT 1.83 IN AND CAPE 4648 J/KG... MOISTURE IS ON THE INCREASE BELOW 500 MB...NOT JUST IN THE PBL...AS NORTHERN EXTENT OF A TROPICAL AIR MASS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK TROPICAL WAVE BRUSHES THE RIOPLEX AS IT MOVES INTO NE MEXICO. 88D AND VIS SAT IMAGERY VERIFIES THE PRESENCE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED TSRA. PERSONAL VISUAL OBSERVATION DETECTED THE PRESENCE OF ISOLATED TOWERING CU AROUND THE SKYDOME. LITTLE OR NO CONVECTIVE INHIBITION EXISTS...SO I EXPECT PULSE TYPE CONVECTION TO INITIATE ALONG THE SEABREEZE IN WESTERN KENEDY...WILLACY...AND CAMERON COUNTIES AFTER 1 PM TODAY. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE REGION EXPECT MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. AGREE WITH THE PREVIOUS ASSESSMENT THAT THE FRONTAL ZONE NOW MOVING OUT OF OK INTO NORTHERN TX WILL REACH THE COASTAL BEND REGION BY LATE TOMORROW AND STALL...BRINGING INCREASED CHANCE OF SHOWERS TO THAT AREA. ON FRIDAY...WILL HAVE TO MONITOR FOR THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY EXPECTED IN THE COASTAL BEND. THESE OUTFLOWS IF STRONG ENOUGH COULD INITIATE CONVECTION IN OUR CWA. MRF/AVN PROGS THE FRINGES ANOTHER TROPICAL AIRMASS/TROPICAL WAVE TO AFFECT OUR REGION BY LATE MON INTO EARLY TUESDAY. THE CORE OF THIS AIRMASS IS FORECAST TO AFFECT THE SAME REGION AFFECTED BY TS ALLISON. .MARINE DISCUSSION... CURRENT BUOY 020 OBS INDICATE THAT WINDS ARE SOUTHEAST 10 TO 15 KT WITH SEAS AT 3 FT. 88D AND SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOW ISOLATED SHOWERS. LITTLE OR NO CHANGE ARE EXPECTED TO THESE CONDITIONS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. BENNETT...53 INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...NONE.
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.