Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 8:01 PM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2002, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 3273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 270101 SVRBRO TXC047-247-270145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 757 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS NORTHEASTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 748 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF FALFURRIAS...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... NORTHERN BROOKS...NORTHEASTERN JIM HOGG COUNTIES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. LAT...LON 2738 9824 2746 9843 2718 9863 2711 9838 PHILO
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 7:25 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 7:25 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 725 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. TSTMS APPROACHING FM THE NORTH...WITH SVR TSTM S OF HIDALGO...IN ADJ MEX. NO CHANGES. .MARINE...BOY020 UP TO 4 FEET NOW...IN SE FLOW 0F 16 GUSTS 23 KTS. MARINE CONVECTION NIL ATTM. WINDS ON THURSDAY WILL INCREASE...POSSIBLY REQUIRING SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES. INCREASING SWELLS WILL ALSO BE EXPERIENCED...FROM THE SOUTHEAST. SYNOPTIC-AVIATION-MARINE...PHILO (58) / MESO...WATKINS INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ248>257-262335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 530 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORMING JUST NORTH OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FORM JUST NORTH OF BROOKS AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES...EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO BEEVILLE. A THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF HEBBRONVILLE...HAS BEEN DECREASING IN INTENSITY AND AREAL COVERAGE DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR. EXPECT SOME SHOWERS ...WITH AN EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE...TO MOVE ACROSS HEBBRONVILLE AT AROUND 630 PM. PHILO
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ248>257-270045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 645 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO HOLD TOGETHER NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ROLL SOUTHWEST...THROUGH JIM WELLS COUNTY...WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS ISSUED EARLIER. ALSO...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCALLEN...IN ADJACENT MEXICO...HAS HELD TOGETHER DURING THE PAST HOUR. ALTHOUGH EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORMED OVER THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY DISSIPATED RAPIDLY...THE AIRMASS OVER THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE. SOME AREAS OF BROOKS AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES MAY EXPERIENCE A THUNDERSTORM LATER TONIGHT. REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EARLY EVENING. PHILO PHILO
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ248>257-270045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 645 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO HOLD TOGETHER NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO ROLL SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH...THROUGH JIM WELLS COUNTY...WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS ISSUED EARLIER. ALSO...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCALLEN...IN ADJACENT MEXICO...HAS HELD TOGETHER DURING THE PAST HOUR. ALTHOUGH EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORMED OVER THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY DISSIPATED RAPIDLY...THE AIRMASS OVER THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE. SOME AREAS OF BROOKS AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES MAY EXPERIENCE A THUNDERSTORM LATER TONIGHT. REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EARLY EVENING. PHILO PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:10 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Jun 27, 3:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Jun 27, 8:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 110 min | |
| Jun 27, 8:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 110 min | |
| Jun 27, 10:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 74 min | |
| Jun 27, 10:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 74 min | |
| Jun 27, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.