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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 7, 2001Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 7:42 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Kenedy County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KBRO 080042
TORBRO
TXC261-080115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
742 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT.

* AT 735 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES           
  EAST-SOUTHEAST OF SARITA...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  NORTHERN KENEDY...CENTRAL KENEDY AND NORTHEASTERN KENEDY COUNTIES.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IN IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

$$

LAT...LON 2694 9776 2693 9742 2724 9742 2725 9773

CORDERO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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
Jun 7, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	56 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.