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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 3, 2009Starr County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2009, 8:08 PM CDT for Starr County, Texas. It was in force for 22 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: Jun 3, 2009, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2009, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Starr County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jun 3, 7:40 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 7:40 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 8:03 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
803 PM CDT WED JUN 03 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0801 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     2 N EDINBURG            26.32N 98.16W
06/03/2009                   HIDALGO            TX   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 2 MILES NORTH OF HIGHWAY
            281 IN EDINBURG.

&&

JPHILO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	19 min
Jun 3, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	33 min
Jun 3, 7:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks	54 min
Jun 3, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	34 min
Jun 3, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	35 min
Jun 3, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	32 min
Jun 3, 8:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	67 min
Jun 3, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr, Zapata	16 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.