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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 11, 2015, 5:37 PM CDT for Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2015, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2015, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 5:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 W San Perlita, TX | 2 POWER POLES DOWN AND 2 DAMAGED. ALONG HIGHWAY 186 NEAR WIND TURBINE FARM WEST OF SAN PERLITA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 3607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
396
WFUS54 KBRO 112237
TORBRO
TXC489-112300-
/O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0007.150911T2237Z-150911T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
537 PM CDT FRI SEP 11 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL WILLACY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 536 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WILLAMAR...OR NEAR LYFORD...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILLAMAR...PORFIRIO AND LOS COYOTES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 2642 9779 2653 9769 2641 9756 2632 9766
TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 306DEG 6KT 2643 9769
$$
CASTILLO1 follow-up statement
517
WWUS54 KBRO 112301
SVSBRO
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
601 PM CDT FRI SEP 11 2015
TXC489-112310-
/O.EXP.KBRO.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-150911T2300Z/
WILLACY TX-
601 PM CDT FRI SEP 11 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL WILLACY COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN LIKELY
AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.
HOWEVER SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE
WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
WILLACY COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 2642 9779 2653 9769 2641 9756 2632 9766
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 306DEG 6KT 2643 9769
$$
CASTILLOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Jim Hogg | 44 min |
| Sep 10, 7:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg | 94 min |
| Sep 10, 7:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Jim Hogg | 25 min |
| Sep 10, 8:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Jim Hogg | 50 min |
| Sep 10, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 45 min |
| Sep 10, 9:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 94 min |
| Sep 11, 11:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Willacy | 14 hr |
| Sep 11, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Brooks | 93 min |
| Sep 11, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Sep 11, 4:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Kenedy | 117 min |
| Sep 11, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 43 min |
| Sep 11, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Kenedy | 57 min |
| Sep 11, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Willacy | 48 min |
| Sep 11, 5:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo | 87 min |
| Sep 11, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Willacy | 52 min |
| Sep 11, 5:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Willacy | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 59 min |
| Sep 11, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Sep 11, 5:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 60 min |
| Sep 11, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo, Willacy | 50 min |
| Sep 11, 6:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 57 min |
| Sep 11, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 117 min | |
| Sep 11, 6:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 112 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.