Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2012, 6:18 PM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2012, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2012, 6:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 2781 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
306 WUUS54 KBRO 052318 SVRBRO TXC047-247-060000- /O.NEW.KBRO.SV.W.0083.120605T2318Z-120606T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 618 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING 60 MPH WINDS...12 MILES NORTH OF AGUA NUEVA...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AGUA NUEVA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE REPORT TORNADOES OR FUNNEL CLOUDS...WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER...HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES OR LARGER...AND ANY WIND DAMAGE TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE BY CALLING 956-504-1432. && LAT...LON 2679 9851 2692 9891 2720 9867 2715 9838 TIME...MOT...LOC 2318Z 014DEG 17KT 2707 9859 $$ 67
1 follow-up statement
346 WWUS54 KBRO 052348 SVSBRO SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 648 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2012 TXC047-247-052358- /O.CAN.KBRO.SV.W.0083.000000T0000Z-120606T0000Z/ JIM HOGG-BROOKS- 648 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN BROOKS AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 648 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 2679 9851 2692 9891 2720 9867 2715 9838 TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 014DEG 17KT 2693 9863 $$ 67
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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.