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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 29, 2005Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2005, 6:28 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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: May 29, 2005, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 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), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 29, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 1569 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KBRO 292330
SVRBRO
TXC261-300000-
/O.NEW.KBRO.SV.W.0013.050529T2328Z-050530T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
628 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN KENEDY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  SOUTH CENTRAL KLEBERG COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  SARITA...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL    
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY AND STRONG GUSTS NEAR 45 KNOTS WILL  
  OCCUR OVER THE ADJACENT LAGUNA MADRE IN NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 2741 9753 2735 9772 2699 9761 2706 9737

$$

PHILO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		88 min
May 29, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	46 min
May 29, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Kenedy	21 min

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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.