Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 1:49 PM CDT for Jim Hogg County, Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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 27, 2002, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jim Hogg County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBRO 271849 SVRBRO TXC247-505-271930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 147 PM CDT THU JUN 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN ZAPATA COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 145 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HEBBRONVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... EASTERN ZAPATA...WESTERN JIM HOGG AND SOUTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTIES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. LAT...LON 2719 9878 2718 9902 2679 9909 2680 9871 MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg | 44 min |
| 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, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 64 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.