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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 4, 2007Starr County, Texas

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.

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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2408 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROJim Hogg, Starr, Zapata66 min
Jun 4, 9:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROJim Hogg, Starr, Zapata114 min
Jun 4, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningBROStarr, Zapata28 min
Jun 5, 4:43 AM CDTFire Weather WatchBROBrooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata33 hr
Jun 5, 11:22 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO38 min
Jun 5, 2:50 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO85 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2007Every tornado warning in 2007Tornadoes 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.