Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 20, 2002, 5:29 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- Oct 20, 2002, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hidalgo County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1974 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
408 WFUS54 KBRO 202229 TORBRO TXC215-202300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 528 PM CDT SUN OCT 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HIDALGO COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR EDINBURG... MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. 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 2620 9822 2620 9802 2647 9801 2646 9826 PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 68 min |
| 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, 5:41 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.