Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 433
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 30, 2010, 8:07 PM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2010, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2010, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 10%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 30%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 17 min |
| Jun 30, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 16 min |
| Jun 30, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 11 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 24.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 11:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 84 min |
| Jul 1, 2:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bee, Brooks, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells and 10 more | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 7:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy and 10 more | 66 min |
| Jul 1, 7:17 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron, Duval and 17 more | 13 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron, Duval and 17 more | 90 min |
Nearby
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.