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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 15, 2001Hidalgo County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2001, 1:29 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2001, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hidalgo County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2857 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBRO 151829
TORBRO
TXC215-151915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
129 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 126 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  PROGRESO...OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF MERCEDES...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR...
   PROGRESO BY 200 PM CDT.
   MERCEDES BY 205 PM CDT.
   SCISSORS...DONNA...WESLACO BY 215 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

IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF 
THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE 
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

$$

LAT...LON 2606 9808 2607 9788 2623 9790 2623 9831

CASTILLO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROZapata60 min
Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROZapata30 min
Jun 14, 10:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROZapata3 hr
Jun 15, 12:21 PM CDTTornado WarningBROHidalgo, Willacy24 min
Jun 15, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron, Hidalgo, Willacy47 min
Jun 15, 1:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo39 min
Jun 15, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo62 min
Jun 15, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBROCameron, Hidalgo45 min
Jun 15, 2:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROHidalgo4 hr
Jun 15, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron, Kenedy, Willacy50 min
Jun 15, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WarningBROCameron, Hidalgo45 min
Jun 15, 3:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROCameron3 hr
Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron, Kenedy, Willacy55 min
Jun 15, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron42 min
Jun 15, 6:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROCameron3 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.