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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 11, 2006Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2006, 12:20 AM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2006, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2006, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 25 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), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 2222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1333 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 10, 10:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 10:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 10:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 6:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
639 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0605 PM     HAIL             SARITA                  27.22N 97.80W
05/10/2006  E0.75 INCH       KENEDY             TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

AP

Local storm report, May 10, 6:46 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
646 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0640 PM     TSTM WND GST     HIDALGO                 26.10N 98.26W
05/10/2006  E60 MPH          HIDALGO            TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

            BORDER PATROL REPORTED WIND GUST LASTED 4 TO 5 MINUTES

&&

KVANSPEY

Local storm report, May 10, 6:50 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
650 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0634 PM     TORNADO          25 S SARITA             26.85N 97.80W
05/10/2006                   KENEDY             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            REPORTED NEAR ARMSTRONG BY BORDER PATROL

&&

KVANSPEY

Local storm report, May 10, 7:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
745 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0606 PM     TSTM WND GST     EDINBURG                26.30N 98.16W
05/10/2006  M58 MPH          HIDALGO            TX   AWOS

            METAR KEBG 2306Z 04038G52KT 2 1/2SM +TSRA 23/21

&&

KVANSPEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		59 min
May 10, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy, Willacy	23 min
May 10, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	24 min
May 10, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	24 min
May 10, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	23 min
May 10, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Kenedy	21 min
May 10, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr	27 min
May 10, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		67 min
May 10, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr	36 min
May 10, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	34 min
May 10, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	31 min
May 10, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	25 min
May 10, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	8 min
May 10, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Willacy	25 min
May 10, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	34 min
May 10, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		58 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.