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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this fire weather watch at Jan 25, 2012, 5:19 AM CST for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 26, 2012, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2012, 5:19 AM CST (11:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 26, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2012, 2:23 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
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), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:22 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, 11.3 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
- 1865 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jan 24, 5:50 PM CST, 11 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 5:50 PM CST, 11 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 5:30 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy | 4 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:23 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 28 hr |
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.