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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Brownsville, TX

April 16, 2012Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2012, 3:32 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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: Apr 16, 2012, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2012, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 16, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2823 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

348 
WFUS54 KBRO 162032
TORBRO
TXC261-489-162100-
/O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0006.120416T2032Z-120416T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
332 PM CDT MON APR 16 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.
  NORTHERN WILLACY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 332 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A TORNADO OVER SOUTHERN KENEDY COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RUDOLPH.
  YTURRIA.
  WILLAMAR.

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 2661 9749 2644 9763 2665 9790 2679 9777
TIME...MOT...LOC 2032Z 308DEG 22KT 2666 9775

$$

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1 follow-up statement

226 
WWUS54 KBRO 162049
SVSBRO

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
349 PM CDT MON APR 16 2012

TXC261-489-162100-
/O.CON.KBRO.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120416T2100Z/
WILLACY-KENEDY-
349 PM CDT MON APR 16 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
KENEDY AND NORTHERN WILLACY COUNTIES...

AT 349 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
TRACK A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF RAYMONDVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH.

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 2661 9749 2644 9763 2665 9790 2679 9777
TIME...MOT...LOC 2049Z 282DEG 10KT 2662 9774

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	57 min
Apr 15, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	61 min
Apr 15, 8:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Zapata	34 min
Apr 15, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	59 min
Apr 15, 9:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	84 min
Apr 15, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg	58 min
Apr 15, 9:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg	2 hr
Apr 15, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr, Zapata	63 min
Apr 15, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr	55 min
Apr 15, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr, Zapata	64 min
Apr 15, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	60 min
Apr 15, 11:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Starr	83 min
Apr 16, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	39 min
Apr 16, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		86 min
Apr 16, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	33 min
Apr 16, 2:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo, Willacy	54 min
Apr 16, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		61 min
Apr 16, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	43 min
Apr 16, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Willacy	32 min
Apr 16, 3:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo, Willacy	56 min
Apr 16, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	50 min
Apr 16, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		60 min
Apr 16, 3:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	61 min
Apr 16, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy, Willacy	44 min
Apr 16, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	39 min
Apr 16, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Willacy	29 min
Apr 16, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron	35 min
Apr 16, 4:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	63 min
Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		60 min
Apr 16, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron	34 min
Apr 16, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		117 min
Apr 16, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	32 min
Apr 16, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		2 hr
Apr 16, 5:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	54 min
Apr 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		62 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.