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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 9, 2001, 4:25 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 2001, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2923 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
730 WFUS54 KBRO 092129 TORBRO TXC261-092230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 425 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 420 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAYMONDVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NEAR HIGHWAY 77 ALONG THE KENEDY AND WILLACY COUNTY LINE. 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 2677 9777 2677 9835 2627 9859 2609 9792 MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 3:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 38 min |
| Sep 9, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 62 min |
| Sep 9, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Willacy | 44 min |
| Sep 9, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 60 min |
| Sep 9, 5:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 6:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron | 29 min |
| Sep 9, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron | 40 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.