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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2001, 6:19 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
- May 21, 2001, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 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 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 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 212320 TORBRO TXC047-215-247-427-220015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 619 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN STARR COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SOUTHEASTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS NORTHERN HIDALGO COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 32 MILES NORTH OF RIO GRANDE CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... SOUTHERN JIM HOGG...NORTHERN STARR... SOUTHERN BROOKS AND NORTHERN HIDALGO COUNTIES. 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...SEBEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. $$ LAT...LON 2693 9879 2676 9879 2671 9812 2696 9813 SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 63 min |
| May 21, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 49 min |
| May 21, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 55 min |
| May 21, 5:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 3 hr |
| May 21, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 60 min |
| May 21, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr | 56 min |
| May 21, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Starr | 65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.