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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 7, 2001Hidalgo County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 5:29 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hidalgo County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
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.
Jun 7, 5:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 59 M	Mc Allen, TX	Numerous trees and power lines were reported down in McAllen and across other portions of Hidalgo County, resulting in several damaged cars and the loss of electricity for about 10,000 customers in that area. Several trees blocked Bicentennial Boulevard in M

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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 072230
TORBRO

TXC215-072300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MCALLEN...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 20 MPH.  

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR...
   EDINBURG...MISSION...PHARR...LA HOMA BY 535 PM CDT.
   HIDALGO BY 550 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 LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

LAT...LON 2628 9813 2635 9832 2594 9855 2585 9829

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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, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	46 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.