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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2005, 11:51 AM CDT for Brooks County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 20, 2005, 11:51 AM CDT (16:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2005, 12:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brooks County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBRO 201651 TORBRO TXC047-201715- /O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0011.050720T1651Z-050720T1715Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1151 AM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 1215 PM CDT * AT 1145 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ENCINO...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF FALFURRIAS... MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER... RURAL CENTRAL BROOKS COUNTY AT 1210 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. LAT...LON 2687 9799 2714 9800 2725 9843 2695 9844 $$ SPEECE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KBRO 201708 SVSBRO SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1206 PM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 TXC047-201715- /O.CON.KBRO.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050720T1715Z/ BROOKS TX- 1206 PM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR BROOKS COUNTY... AT 1205 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENCINO...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FALFURRIAS...MOVING WEST AT 40 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF BROOKS COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. LAT...LON 2687 9799 2714 9800 2725 9843 2695 9844 $$ SPEECE
000 WWUS54 KBRO 201721 SVSBRO SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1220 PM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 TXC047-201730- /O.EXP.KBRO.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050720T1715Z/ BROOKS TX- 1220 PM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BROOKS COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1215 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. LAT...LON 2687 9799 2714 9800 2725 9843 2695 9844 $$ SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 4:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Willacy | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 5:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 96 min |
| Jul 20, 7:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 8:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 8:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 10:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 11:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 12:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 26 min |
| Jul 20, 12:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 1:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 1:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Zapata | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 1:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 28 min |
| Jul 20, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 15 min |
| Jul 20, 5:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg | 37 min |
| Jul 20, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 25 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.