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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 8, 2001Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2001, 7:42 PM CDT for Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 8, 2001, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Willacy County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 8, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado F0	San Perlita, TX	A law enforcement official (trained in storm spotting) from the Willacy County Sheriff's Department reported a tornado touchdown near San Perlita, at the intersection of FM 1420 and Highway 186.

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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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-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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBRO 090044
TORBRO

TXC489-090130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 738 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST NORTHWEST OF PORT 
MANSFIELD MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  NORTHEASTERN 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 2635 9731 2657 9714 2666 9738 2649 9772

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, 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
Jun 8, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.