Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2007, 8:40 PM CDT for Starr County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 1, 2007, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2007, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 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), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 2936 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBRO 020140 TORBRO TXC427-020230- /O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0004.070702T0140Z-070702T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 840 PM CDT SUN JUL 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN STARR COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ROMA...RIO GRANDE CITY...EL SAUZ... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 836 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 1 MILE NORTH OF RIO GRANDE CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EL SAUZ BY 930 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. LAT...LON 2629 9900 2614 9862 2672 9867 2666 9909 $$ JS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Zapata | 119 min |
| Jul 1, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Starr | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Starr | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 9:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 11:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 113 min |
| Jul 2, 12:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 25 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.