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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 7, 2001Hidalgo County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 4:44 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2001, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hidalgo County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 7, 5:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Edinburg, TX	Hail at least the size of dimes was reported by officials at a state prison in Hidalgo County.
Jun 7, 5:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Mc Allen, TX	Dime size hail was reported by the Department of Public Safety in McAllen.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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 072145
TORBRO
TXC215-072230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
444 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT.

* AT 443 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES NORTH OF
  EDINBURG...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR...
   EDINBURG BY 515 PM CDT.

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 LOWES(T FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

LAT...LON 2654 9805 2654 9825 2618 9830 2618 9800

MWM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg	76 min
Jun 7, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	52 min
Jun 7, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo	50 min
Jun 7, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	63 min
Jun 7, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	63 min
Jun 7, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg	58 min
Jun 7, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	31 min
Jun 7, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	55 min
Jun 7, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Starr	65 min
Jun 7, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	65 min
Jun 7, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	59 min
Jun 7, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Kenedy	63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.