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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2006, 7:45 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 19 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
- Mar 28, 2006, 7:45 PM CST (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2006, 8:04 PM CST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brooks County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 909 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBRO 290147 TORBRO TXC047-215-261-489-290230- /O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0002.060329T0145Z-060329T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 745 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS NORTHEASTERN HIDALGO COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WESTERN WILLACY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF RAYMONDVILLE * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 745 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAYMONDVILLE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAN MANUEL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHWESTERN KENEDY COUNTY AT 800 PM CST WITH SOUTHERLY MOVEMENT TOWARD RAYMONDVILLE AFTER 800 PM. DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE STORMS PATH AND TO SHELTER. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO...GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST RESORT. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 2688 9791 2679 9808 2638 9788 2643 9767 $$ PHILO
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KBRO 290204 SVSBRO SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 801 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2006 TXC047-215-261-489-290208- /O.CAN.KBRO.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060329T0230Z/ BROOKS TX-HIDALGO TX-KENEDY TX-WILLACY TX- 801 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN WILLACY...SOUTHWESTERN KENEDY...NORTHEASTERN HIDALGO AND SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN BROWNSVILLE SHOWS ROTATION WITHIN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS DECREASED NOW...RESULTING IN THE CANCELLATION OF THE TORNADO WARNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR THIS AREA. LAT...LON 2688 9791 2679 9808 2638 9788 2643 9767 $$ PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 6:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 26 min |
| Mar 28, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 7:32 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 58 min | |
| Mar 29, 6:29 AM CST | Marine Weather Statement | BRO | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.