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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Brownsville, TX

February 15, 2003Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2003, 8:43 PM CST for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
Feb 15, 2003, 8:43 PM CST (02:43 UTC)
Expired
Feb 15, 2003, 9:45 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kenedy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-02-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 455 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

449 
WUUS54 KBRO 160243
SVRBRO
TXC261-160345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
842 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CST

* AT 836 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF SARITA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT   
  25 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL AND BRIEF WIND     
  GUST UP TO 60 MPH THROUGH 945 PM.  

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   SARITA BY 850 PM CST.

LAT...LON 2735 9796 2716 9799 2691 9762 2725 9743

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 9:17 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningBRO118 min
Feb 15, 9:17 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningBRO118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.