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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2001, 12:21 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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 15, 2001, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2001, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hidalgo County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 2857 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBRO 151728 CCA TORBRO TXC215-489-151745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED FOR MOVEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1221 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL WILLACY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EASTERN HIDALGO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT * AT 1218 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR RAYMONDVILLE... MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. 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 ZSHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. $$ LAT...LON 2637 9765 2657 9769 2656 9799 2635 9797 PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Zapata | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 10:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Zapata | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 2:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 3:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 6:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.