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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2010, 8:35 PM CDT for Jim Hogg County, Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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 2, 2010, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2010, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jim Hogg County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 3094 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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 2, 4:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 4:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 454 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010 TXZ248>257-030000- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS... SARITA...RIO GRANDE CITY...ROMA...MCALLEN...EDINBURG...PHARR... MISSION...WESLACO...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN... PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 454 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AT 5 PM THIS EVENING...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SITES ACROSS THE STATE WERE INDICATING AREAS OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NORTHEASTERN MEXICO. THE AIRMASS CURRENTLY IN PLACE OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. AS THE EVENING WEARS ON...SOME OF THESE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS COULD MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE REGION. AT THIS TIME...THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN AREAS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WILL LIKELY SEE THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ESPECIALLY FROM NOW THROUGH SUNRISE THURSDAY MORNING. RESIDENTS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS 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/HART
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 7:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 731 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010 TXZ248>257-030300- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ZAPATA...HEBBRONVILLE...FALFURRIAS... SARITA...RIO GRANDE CITY...ROMA...MCALLEN...EDINBURG...PHARR... MISSION...WESLACO...RAYMONDVILLE...BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN... PORT MANSFIELD...PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND... LAGUNA HEIGHTS...LAGUNA VISTA 731 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010 ...HIGH HEAT INDICES TO AFFECT DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THURSDAY... HIGH TEMPERATURES THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WILL RANGE FROM THE LOWER TO MID 90S ACROSS THE LOWER TEXAS COASTAL COUNTIES TO THE UPPER 90S TO NEAR 100 DEGREES ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN COUNTIES. THESE HOT TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE WITH HIGH HUMIDITY VALUES ACROSS THE REGION TO GENERATE ELEVATED HEAT INDICES RANGING FROM 100 TO 105 DEGREES ACROSS THE LOWER TEXAS COASTAL COUNTIES OF KENEDY... WILLACY AND CAMERON COUNTIES TO THE 105 TO 109 DEGREE RANGE ACROSS MUCH OF ZAPATA...STARR...JIM HOGG...BROOKS AND HIDALGO COUNTIES. THESE HIGH HEAT INDICES WILL START TO LOWER TOMORROW EVENING EVENTUALLY FALLING INTO THE 80S BY MIDNIGHT THURSDAY NIGHT. RESIDENTS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD DRINK PLENTY OF WATER THIS WEEK AND SHOULD REMEMBER TO WEAR LIGHTWEIGHT AND LIGHT COLORED CLOTHING. LIMIT STRENUOUS EXERCISE FOR THE EARLY MORNING OR LATE EVENING HOURS. STAY IN AIR CONDITIONED LOCATIONS IF POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER EVENT. SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Zapata | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 10:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg | 108 min |
| Jun 2, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 10:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 82 min |
| Jun 2, 10:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 64 min | |
| Jun 2, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 10:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Starr | 85 min |
| Jun 2, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Willacy | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 11:40 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 65 min | |
| Jun 2, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 52 min | |
| Jun 2, 11:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 12:20 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 115 min | |
| Jun 3, 12:39 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 96 min | |
| Jun 3, 12:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 94 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.