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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 9, 2014Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2014, 7:36 PM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: May 9, 2014, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 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), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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
May 9, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 1180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

396 
WFUS54 KBRO 100036
TORBRO
TXC047-247-100100-
/O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0001.140510T0036Z-140510T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
736 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.
  EASTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 736 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A TORNADO ON RADAR OVER SOUTHEASTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  RACHAL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE OR HEAR THE
TORNADO. PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THIS STORM AS
POSSIBLE. TRAILER HOMES ARE EASILY DESTROYED BY TORNADOES AND SHOULD
BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY FOR STRONGER SHELTER.

IF TRAVELING...FIND STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY OR PULL OVER AND GET
BELOW THE DASHBOARD IF DEBRIS IS SIGHTED.

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 2696 9806 2678 9812 2678 9824 2689 9859
      2706 9854
TIME...MOT...LOC 0036Z 286DEG 27KT 2689 9842

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr	112 min
May 9, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	49 min
May 9, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr	31 min
May 9, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	26 min
May 9, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy	38 min
May 9, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	34 min
May 9, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		2 hr
May 9, 8:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Starr	86 min
May 9, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	55 min
May 9, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Willacy	32 min
May 9, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	48 min
May 9, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		113 min
May 9, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	27 min
May 9, 11:58 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		92 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.