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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Brownsville, TX

April 4, 2004Jim Hogg County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 2004, 8:49 PM CDT for Jim Hogg 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: Apr 4, 2004, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jim Hogg County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 4, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 903 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

753 
WFUS54 KBRO 050149
TORBRO
TXC247-050230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
849 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 848 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES EAST OF
  RANDADO...OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF HEBBRONVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING  
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  JIM HOGG COUNTY.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF 
BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

LAT...LON 2719 9884 2700 9875 2703 9849 2719 9852

$$

SPEECE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 7:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Brooks	105 min
Apr 4, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	66 min
Apr 4, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	57 min
Apr 4, 7:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Zapata	3 hr
Apr 4, 8:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	3 hr
Apr 4, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg	61 min
Apr 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	45 min
Apr 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	41 min
Apr 4, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	31 min
Apr 4, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Kenedy	45 min
Apr 4, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	58 min
Apr 4, 11:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Brooks, Kenedy	3 hr
Apr 4, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		85 min
Apr 4, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		85 min
Apr 5, 12:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Starr	3 hr
Apr 5, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	60 min
Apr 5, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	45 min
Apr 5, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		2 hr
Apr 5, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		2 hr
Apr 5, 1:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Starr	45 min
Apr 5, 1:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	3 hr
Apr 5, 2:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron	102 min
Apr 5, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	59 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.