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Special Weather Statement, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 1, 2016Cameron County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2016, 1:21 AM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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 1, 2016, 1:21 AM CDT (06:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

County Cameron County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 11 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: 1776 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted.

785 
WWUS84 KBRO 010621
SPSBRO

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
121 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016
 
TXZ255-257-010700-
INLAND CAMERON TX-COASTAL CAMERON TX-
121 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL CAMERON COUNTY UNTIL 200
AM CDT...

AT 121 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR RIVERA HIGH SCHOOL...OR 7 MILES EAST OF CAMERON PARK...MOVING
SOUTH AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARLINGEN...SAN BENITO...LOS FRESNOS...RANCHO VIEJO...RIO HONDO...
PALM VALLEY...LOS INDIOS...LA PALOMA...
LAURELES AND DOWNTOWN BROWNSVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 2585 9745 2588 9746 2589 9752 2594 9755
      2594 9758 2603 9764 2602 9774 2603 9777
      2603 9778 2621 9776 2621 9731 2611 9730
      2608 9726 2596 9723 2596 9728 2594 9728
      2592 9733 2593 9735 2591 9737 2584 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 0621Z 004DEG 29KT 2601 9738 

$$

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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 31, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	27 min
May 31, 7:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Jim Hogg	97 min
May 31, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	33 min
May 31, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	27 min
May 31, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	56 min
May 31, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	50 min
May 31, 8:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks	2 hr
May 31, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo	29 min
May 31, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Kenedy	8 min
May 31, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	48 min
May 31, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	44 min
May 31, 9:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Kenedy	89 min
May 31, 9:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Kenedy, Willacy	38 min
May 31, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	42 min
May 31, 10:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Starr	85 min
May 31, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	36 min
May 31, 10:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	91 min
May 31, 10:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	49 min
May 31, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy, Willacy	52 min
May 31, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	43 min
May 31, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	41 min
May 31, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	37 min
May 31, 11:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	23 min
May 31, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		59 min
May 31, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	49 min
Jun 1, 12:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	28 min
Jun 1, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	40 min
Jun 1, 12:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	85 min
Jun 1, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	46 min
Jun 1, 12:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	85 min
Jun 1, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	37 min
Jun 1, 12:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	52 min
Jun 1, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	36 min
Jun 1, 2:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	96 min
Jun 1, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		52 min
Jun 1, 4:45 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	BRO		4 hr
Jun 1, 5:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	4 days
Jun 1, 5:25 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	3 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.