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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Brownsville, TX

July 30, 2007Brooks County, Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2007, 3:07 PM CDT for Brooks County, Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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
Jul 30, 2007, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brooks County, TX, Kenedy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2688 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2688 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 30, 1:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 1:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 7:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROZapata44 min
Jul 29, 7:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROZapata45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.