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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 8, 2001Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2001, 7:12 PM CDT for Willacy 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 8, 2001, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Willacy County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 67 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1900 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBRO 090012
TORBRO
TXC489-090045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
712 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WILLACY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  RAYMONDVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  EASTERN WILLACY COUNTY.

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 2660 9747 2658 9784 2639 9770 2643 9745

PHILO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningBROWillacy48 min
Jun 8, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron, Willacy41 min
Jun 8, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron, Hidalgo, Willacy58 min
Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningBROHidalgo37 min
Jun 8, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron48 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.