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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2002, 7:37 PM CDT for Brooks County, Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 2002, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brooks County, TX, Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2723 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 Oct 19, 7:15 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 7:15 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 715 PM CDT SAT OCT 19 2002 WL NEED TO ADD TSTMS TO NRN ZNS AS CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DIG SW INTO THE RIO GRANDE VLY. NO OTHER CHANGES. MARINE...SCA CONDITIONS STILL REACHED OFFSHORE...AS SEAS OSCILLATE FM 6 TO 7 FEET. SE WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO AROUND 15 KTS OFFSHORE...10 TO 15 KNOTS OVR THE LAGUNA MADRE. COLD FRONT PASSAGE IS NOT EXPECTED OVER THE WATERS. AT BEST...WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE EAST OR NORTHEAST BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. EXPECT TO LOWER SCA FLAGS BY EARLY SUNDAY. SYNOPTIC-AVIATION-MARINE...PHILO (58) / MESO...ABBOTT INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...SCA FOR GMZ150-155-170-175.
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 19, 5:00 AM CDT, 14 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ248>257-201100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 500 AM CDT SAT OCT 19 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES DUE TO GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 21 hr |
| Oct 20, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo | 103 min |
| Oct 20, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 31 min |
| Oct 20, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 58 min | |
| Oct 20, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 58 min | |
| Oct 20, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 28 min |
| Oct 20, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 84 min |
| Oct 20, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 81 min |
| Oct 20, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 31 min |
| Oct 20, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Oct 20, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 69 min |
| Oct 20, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 88 min |
| Oct 20, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron | 37 min |
| Oct 20, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron | 47 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.