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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2010, 12:05 AM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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 8, 2010, 12:05 AM CDT (05:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2010, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 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 05:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 3402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 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
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
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 7, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 900 PM CDT MON JUN 7 2010 .UPDATE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY THIS EVENING. SOME LINGERING SHOWERS COULD CONTINUE TONIGHT...THEREFORE WILL KEEP SCATTERED SHOWERS IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT. MODELS REMAIN IN AGREEMENT IN IN KEEPING A MID LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THROUGH TUESDAY. EXPECT SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS TO INCREASE ONCE AGAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE BRO SOUNDING THIS EVENING CONTINUES TO SHOW INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE AS THE MODELS INDICATE. CLOUD COVER WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR ON TUESDAY...ALTHOUGH HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE TO BE VERY HIGH. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL OVER THE REGIONAL AIRPORTS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS WITH TEMPO MVFR CIG/VSBYS DUE TO SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WINDS WILL BR LIGHT OCCASIONALLY MODERATE FROM THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. && .MARINE... LIGHT OCCASIONAL MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. SEAS WILL BE LOW THROUGH MOST OF THE PERIOD. ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. MODERATE SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 20 KNOTS FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK...WITH RESULTING SEAS OF 4 TO 6 FEET ACROSS THE GULF. WINDS MAY INCREASE TO ADVISORY CRITERIA BRIEFLY THURSDAY OR FRIDAY...BUT CURRENT THOUGHT IS THAT THIS WOULD BE RESTRICTED TO NO MORE THAN A 6 HOUR BLOCK. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 129 PM CDT MON JUN 7 2010/ SHORT TERM /7 PM TONIGHT THROUGH 7 AM WEDNESDAY/...LOCAL AND FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATING PLENTY OF INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE TO SUPPORT DEEP CONVECTION THROUGH TUESDAY AS MID LEVEL LOW DEEPENS AND SLOWLY DRIFTS NORTHWARD. MODELS REMAIN IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH POSITIONING AND MOVEMENT ALTHOUGH NAM STILL A LITTLE OPTIMISTIC WITH FASTER MOVEMENT AND LOWER QPF. QUESTION REMAINS EXACTLY WHERE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL SET UP. BEST BETS CONTINUE TO BE TO THE WEST OF HIGHWAY 77 TUESDAY MORNING AND FURTHER NORTH BY TUESDAY NIGHT EARLY WEDNESDAY. MOST OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WILL SEE MEASUREABLE PRECIPITATION. STRONGER STORMS TO THE WEST AND NORTH WILL BE CAPABLE OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...LIMITED VSBY...GUSTY WINDS AND SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING. CLOUD COVER WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES DOWN ON TUESDAY BUT HUMIDITY WILL REMAIN OPPRESSIVE THROUGH MOST OF THE NIGHT TONIGHT AND DAYTIME HOURS ON TUESDAY. LONG TERM /7 AM WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/...THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IN THE LONG TERM WILL BE PCPN CHCS ALONG WITH THE CONTINUED SULTRY SUMMER LIKE CONDITIONS. MID LVL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM PROGGED BY MDLS TO SLOWLY SPIN ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NE PORTIONS OF TX AS THE TERM BEGINS ON WED. WILL CONTINUE TO CALL FOR A SLIGHT CHC OF PCPN DURING THE DAYTIME HRS ON WED ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TX AS CYCLONIC FLOW CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE THE AREA ALONG WITH STRONG LOW LVL JET DEVELOPING. MDLS THEN PROG MID LVL LOW TO SLIDE ACROSS NE TX ON THU AND INTO THE NATIONS MID SECTION ON FRI. RAIN CHCS ARE ANTICIPATED TO END BY LATE WED INTO EARLY THU. MID LVL RIDGE BEGINS TO NOSE BACK WESTWARD ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO LATE IN THE WEEK WITH WEAK RIDGING TAKING PLACE LOCALLY DURING THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER...RIDGE WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO ESTABLISH ITSELF AS ANOTHER MID LVL TROF SLIDES FROM THE PAC NW INTO THE FOUR CORNERS REGION DURING THE COURSE OF THE WEEKEND. RICH TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN CONSISTENT THRU THE PERIOD WITH DEW POINTS GENERALLY REMAINING IN THE 70S WHICH WILL PROHIBIT OVRNGT LOWS FROM REACHING ANY SORT OF RELIEF RANGE. THE ANTICIPATED RAINFALL EXPECTED IN THE SHORT TERM WILL ALLOW HIGHER MOISTURE VALUES TO REMAIN WHICH WILL ACT TO MUTE DAYTIME MAX TEMPERATURES IN THE LONGER TERM. HOWEVER...DAYTIME READINGS WILL REMAIN HOT WITH LOW TO MID 90S ACROSS COASTAL COUNTIES AND UPPER 90S/NEAR 100 ACROSS OUR CENTRAL AND WESTERN FA. && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BROWNSVILLE 65/64
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 8:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 830 PM CDT MON JUN 7 2010 GMZ130-132-135-150-155-170-175-081100- 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- 830 PM CDT MON JUN 7 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE LAGUNA MADRE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS REDUCING VISIBILITY BRIEFLY BELOW 3 NM. WIND GUSTS TO 25 OR 30 MPH IN THUNDERSTORMS. WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...ISOLATED MAINLY LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. TXZ248>257-081100- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- 830 PM CDT MON JUN 7 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS POSSIBLE WITH WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THE MORNING HOURS AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS TO 30 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL TAPER OFF TUESDAY NIGHT AND END BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. CONTINUED HOT AND MUGGY WITH HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 105 AND 112 EACH AFTERNOON. OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES REMAINING IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S MOST OF THE NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. SPOTTERS MAY WISH TO SELF ACTIVATE ON TUESDAY.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 11:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Hidalgo | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 12:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 60 min | |
| Jun 8, 12:55 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 65 min | |
| Jun 8, 3:10 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 65 min | |
| Jun 8, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 3:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 67 min | |
| Jun 8, 4:19 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 56 min | |
| Jun 8, 4:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 61 min | |
| Jun 8, 5:14 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.