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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 8, 2001Hidalgo County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2001, 9:08 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hidalgo County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 090208
TORBRO
TXC215-090245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HIDALGO COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 906 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR PROGRESO...OR
  NEAR MERCEDES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR...
   PROGRESO BY 915 PM CDT.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

$$

LAT...LON 2624 9790 2616 9808 2607 9801 2608 9788

CASTILLO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningBROWillacy33 min
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, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron48 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.