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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2010, 11:45 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 30 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, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2010, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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, 8:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 844 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH 7 AM FRIDAY/...PRODUCTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 249 WHICH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN HALF OF CWA. STRONGEST CONVECTION IS CURRENTLY PROGGED TO RIDEE ALONG BRO/CRP CWA BORDER FROM WEST TO EAST. STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO HOW FAR SOUTH CONVECTION WILL DEVELOP BUT FEEL ENOUGH POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR ISOLATED SVR CONVECTION ACROSS ALL OF CWA. UPDATED GRIDS WITH HIGHER POPS ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN AREAS. USERS MAY ALSO REFER TO SWOMCD780 AND WW249 FROM SPC FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL. && .AVIATION...MIX OF VFR AND MVFR OVER NEXT 24 HRS WITH POTENTIAL CONVECTION THREAT TONIGHT. MAIN THREAT TO AVIATION WILL BE SCATTERED TSRA ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WITH POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT MCS NEAR VCT/CRP AREA AFFECTING DIRECT FLIGHTS TO/FROM BRO/HRL/MFE THIS EVENING. HARD TO PINPOINT EXACT TIMING OF CONVECTIVE THREAT BUT INCLUDED TEMPO GROUPS IN TAFS FOR AT LEAST -TSRA...PRIMARILY AFTER 06Z. EVEN IF CONVECTION DOES NOT MOVE DIRECTLY OVER TERMINALS RESIDUAL TURBULENCE WILL AFFECT FLIGHT PATHS FOR SEVERAL HOURS IN/NEAR STORMS. LOW CLOUDS ARE OTHER FLIGHT THREAT. ABUNDANCE OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES TO POOL ALLOWING FOR A MIX OF SCT TO BKN CEILINGS RANGING FROM 15 TO 25K FT. CLOUDS QUICKLY MIX OUT BY MIDDAY THURS. && .MARINE...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 249 IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN LAGUNA MADRE AND NEAR SHORE WATERS EAST OF KENEDY COUNTY OUT TO 20 NM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING NW OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS MAY AFFECT MARINE AREAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND INTENSE CLOUD TO SURFACE LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY STORMS TONIGHT. AFTER TONIGHT/S STORMS EXPECT LOW TO MODERATE SEAS AND MODERATE WINDS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BAYVIEW/PORT ISABEL 79 93 81 91 / 20 10 10 10 BROWNSVILLE 79 95 79 94 / 20 10 10 10 HARLINGEN 78 96 79 96 / 20 10 10 10 MCALLEN 79 99 79 97 / 30 10 10 10 RIO GRANDE CITY 76 100 78 99 / 70 10 10 10 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND 80 88 82 88 / 20 10 10 10 && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BROWNSVILLE HART
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 10:55 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 7:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 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
Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 2, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 55 min |
| 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, 11:53 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.