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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2007, 10:16 PM CDT for Starr County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 4, 2007, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2007, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Starr County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 2408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBRO 050316 TORBRO TXC427-050345- /O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0003.070605T0316Z-070605T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1016 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN STARR COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ROMA...RIO GRANDE CITY... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1011 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ROMA... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. LAT...LON 2657 9909 2639 9913 2632 9878 2654 9874 $$ TOMASELLI
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KBRO 050333 SVSBRO SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1032 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2007 TXC427-050345- /O.CON.KBRO.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070605T0345Z/ STARR TX- 1032 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN STARR COUNTY... AT 1029 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ROMA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RIO GRANDE CITY IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MARBLE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. LAT...LON 2657 9909 2639 9913 2632 9878 2654 9874 $$ TOMASELLI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 9:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 114 min |
| Jun 4, 9:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 4:43 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 33 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:22 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 38 min | |
| Jun 5, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 85 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.