Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2001, 6:08 PM CDT for Jim Hogg County, Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2001, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jim Hogg County, TX, Zapata County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 M | Zapata, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 2083 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 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 242312 SVRBRO TXC247-505-250015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 608 PM CDT SUN JUN 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ZAPATA COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... NORTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT. * AT 603 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HEBBRONVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN JIM HOGG...AND NORTHEASTERN ZAPATA COUNTIES. $$ LAT...LON 2715 9852 2747 9V867 2749 9906 2706 9901 MWM
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 24, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 300 PM CDT SUN JUN 24 2001 THERE HAS NOT BEEN A GREAT DEAL OF CHANGE IN THE LARGE SCALE UPPER FLOW PATTERN OVER THE U.S. SINCE THIS TIME YESTERDAY. LARGE UPPER LOW OVER THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS HAS DRIFTED FURTHER TO THE SOUTH...AND CONTINUES TO SHOW SIGNS OF CUTTING-OFF FROM THE MAIN AXIS OF THE WESTERLIES. AT THE SAME TIME...AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IS HELPING TO ELONGATE THE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE CENTER OF THE NATION. SHORT-TERM MODELS ARE SHOWING A WEAK UPPER WAVE BETWEEN THE TEXAS COASTAL BEND AND DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THIS FEATURE IS PROGGED TO MOVE OVER THE CWA LATER THIS EVENING...AND MAY SPARK A FEW SHOWERS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS NEAR SEABREEZE FRONT...BUT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE TOO SPARSE TO MENTION IN THE FIRST PERIOD OF THE ZONES. UPPER RIDGING IS REALLY PROGGED TO DOMINATE OVER THE CWA EARLY NEXT WEEK...AND WITH MOISTURE PLUME FROM THE BAY OF CAMPECHE NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS STRONG AS WAS PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED...POPS HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY. AT THIS TIME...WILL LEAVE IN A VERY SLIGHT CHANCE FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOONS...MAINLY FOR SHOWERS ALONG THE SEABREEZE FRONT. HOWEVER...POTENTIAL FOR SEABREEZE ACTIVITY IS EVEN LESS LIKELY ON TUESDAY. UPPER LOW OVER THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS IS FORECAST BY MEDIUM RANGE MODELS TO RETROGRADE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THIS WEEK...AND EVENTUALLY END UP OVER THE SOUTH-CENTRAL PLAINS BY THE END OF NEXT WEEKEND. WITH UPPER LEVEL TROFFING IN THE AREA NEXT WEEK AND WITH AT LEAST ISOLATED SEABREEZE ACTIVITY EXPECTED...WILL GO AHEAD IN LEAVE IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. MARINE...CURRENT OBS FROM BUOY020 INDICATE EAST WINDS AT 4 KNOTS PRODUCING 2 FOOT SEAS. THIS TREND OF LIGHT EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. OTHER THAN TO DECREASE POPS ...NOT MUCH CHANGE IS ANTICIPATED IN THE CWF. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: BRO BB 075/095 075/095 075 01010 HRL BB 074/096 074/096 074 01010 MFE BB 075/098 075/098 075 01010 RGC BB 074/100 074/100 074 01010 SPI BB 078/088 078/088 078 01010 SYNOPTIC...DD (65) / AVIATION-MARINE...SB (53) / MESO...SM INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:35 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
TXZ248>251-254-256-250130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 535 PM CDT SUN JUN 24 2001 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE OVER THE NORTHERN REACHES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS EVENING... A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE PERSISTING OVER DUVAL AND JIM WELLS COUNTIES THIS EARLY EVENING. THIS CLUSTER WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD INTO THE NORTHERN REACHES OF JIM HOGG AND BROOKS COUNTIES AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE WINDS AROUND 50 MPH... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING UNTIL 8:30 PM OVER PORTIONS OF ZAPATA...JIM HOGG...BROOKS...AND NORTHWEST KENEDY COUNTIES. ONE OR TWO LOCATIONS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS MAY OBTAIN LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES DUE TO ANTICIPATED SLOW STORM MOVEMENT. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATIO+N. CORDERO
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.