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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Brownsville, TX

April 25, 2003Brooks County, Hidalgo County, Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 5:08 PM CDT for Brooks County, Hidalgo County, Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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: Apr 25, 2003, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brooks County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Kenedy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -557 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 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 
WUUS54 KBRO 252208
SVRBRO
TXC047-215-261-252300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
506 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN KENEDY COUNTY 
  NORTHERN HIDALGO COUNTY 
  SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN          
  BROWNSVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 8 MILES        
  SOUTHEAST OF ENCINO...OR 18 MILES NORTH OF SAN MANUEL...AND MOVING 
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...  
  WESTERN KENEDY...NORTHERN HIDALGO AND SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTIES.

LAT...LON 2696 9816 2679 9821 2665 9781 2688 9773

$$

SPEECE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	39 min
Apr 25, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	64 min
Apr 25, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	46 min
Apr 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy, Willacy	43 min
Apr 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr	53 min
Apr 25, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	49 min
Apr 25, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	57 min
Apr 25, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	36 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.