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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2010, 10:20 PM CDT for Brooks County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- May 14, 2010, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2010, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Brooks County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 2388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 May 14, 9:54 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 9:54 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 5:20 PM CDT, 5 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 520 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 TXZ248>257-151000- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- 520 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BUILD SOUTH OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FROM CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF DOWNPOURS... LIGHTNING AND BRIEF WIND GUSTS FROM 30 TO 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ130-132-135-150-155-170-175-151000- LAGUNA MADRE FROM THE PORT OF BROWNSVILLE TO THE ARROYO COLORADO- LAGUNA MADRE FROM THE ARROYO COLORADO TO 5 NM NORTH OF PORT MANSFIELD TX- LAGUNA MADRE FROM 5 NM NORTH OF PORT MANSFIELD TO BAFFIN BAY TX- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT MANSFIELD TO THE RIO GRANDE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT MANSFIELD OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PORT MANSFIELD TO THE RIO GRANDE EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT MANSFIELD EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 520 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE LAGUNA MADRE. .DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BUILD SOUTH OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS MARINE AREAS FROM CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF DOWNPOURS...LIGHTNING AND BRIEF WIND GUSTS FROM 30 TO 40 MPH. THE RIP CURRENT RISK FOR AREA BEACHES IS HIGH FOR THE REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. RIP CURRENT RISK WILL REMAIN ELEVATED THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. LOW RIP CURRENT RISK WILL BE POSSIBLE NEXT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY BEFORE INCREASING NEXT THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 14, 7:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 710 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 TXZ249-150115- JIM HOGG- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...HEBBRONVILLE 710 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY... AT 7 PM...AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT NORTHEASTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED JUST EAST OF HEBBRONVILLE AND WILL MOVE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...BRIEF DOWNPOURS... BRIEF WIND GUSTS FROM 30 TO 40 MPH AND SOME SMALL HAIL. RESIDENTS OF NORTHEASTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE BROWNSVILLE WEB SITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/RGV FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 32 min |
| May 14, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 2 hr |
| May 14, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 43 min |
| May 14, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 55 min |
| May 14, 8:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 64 min |
| May 14, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 61 min |
| May 14, 10:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks | 116 min |
| May 15, 7:59 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 91 min | |
| May 15, 9:25 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 65 min | |
| May 15, 9:48 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 42 min | |
| May 15, 10:32 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 58 min |
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.