Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2005, 8:44 AM CDT for Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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, 8:44 AM CDT (13:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2005, 9:17 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jim Hogg County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 201345 TORBRO TXC247-201415- /O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0007.050720T1344Z-050720T1415Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 844 AM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 915 AM CDT * AT 842 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF HEBBRONVILLE... MOVING WEST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER... RURAL NORTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. LAT...LON 2710 9859 2730 9860 2728 9894 2711 9896 $$ SPEECE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KBRO 201359 SVSBRO SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 859 AM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 TXC247-201415- /O.CON.KBRO.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050720T1415Z/ JIM HOGG TX- 859 AM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 AM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY... AT 858 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO OVER NORTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HEBBRONVILLE...MOVING WEST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. LAT...LON 2710 9859 2730 9860 2728 9894 2711 9896 $$ SPEECE
000 WWUS54 KBRO 201417 SVSBRO SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 916 AM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 TXC247-201426- /O.EXP.KBRO.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050720T1415Z/ JIM HOGG TX- 916 AM CDT WED JUL 20 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY EXPIRES AT 915 AM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. LAT...LON 2710 9859 2730 9860 2728 9894 2711 9896 $$ 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, 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, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks | 30 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 |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2005Every tornado warning in 2005Tornadoes in 2005
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.