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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Brownsville, TX

July 22, 2008Cameron County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2008, 11:14 PM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 16 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2008, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2008, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Cameron County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 22, 11:14 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Nw Rancho Viejo, TX	ROPE TORNADO REPORTED BY SPOTTERS NEAR HIGHWAY 100 AND 77.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 22, 10:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 30 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KBRO 230417
TORBRO
TXC061-230430-
/O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0002.080723T0414Z-080723T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1114 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1114 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR RUSSELLTOWN...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL CAMERON SOUTHWEST 1115 PM CDT AND APPROACH THE 
  RIO GRANDE RIVER BY 1130 PM.
   

AT 1114 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS ALSO REPORTED A ROPE TORNADO NEAR 
HIGHWAY 100 AND 77. 

TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW MOVE TO
A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
ABANDON MOBILE HOMES. LEAVE VEHICLES AND GET INTO A DITCH OR LOW
SPOT.

PLEASE REPORT TORNADOES OR FUNNEL CLOUDS...WINDS OF 58 MPH OR
HIGHER...HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES OR LARGER...AND ANY WIND DAMAGE TO
YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE BY CALLING 956-504-1432.


&&

LAT...LON 2603 9770 2616 9770 2613 9752 2599 9753
TIME...MOT...LOC 0414Z 080DEG 3KT 2609 9758

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:51 PM CDT	Marine Weather Statement	BRO		3 hr
Jul 22, 10:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron	18 min
Jul 22, 11:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron	15 min
Jul 23, 6:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	30 min
Jul 23, 7:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	17 min
Jul 23, 7:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BRO	Kenedy, Willacy	3 hr
Jul 23, 8:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron	3 hr
Jul 23, 11:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	2 hr
Jul 23, 12:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron	3 hr
Jul 23, 2:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	3 hr
Jul 23, 3:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	116 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.