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Special Weather Statement, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 1, 2016Starr County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2016, 11:37 PM CDT for Starr County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2016, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX

County Starr County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1087 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 11:37 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 12:02 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROStarr, Zapata58 min
Jun 2, 5:48 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron, Hidalgo87 min
Jun 2, 11:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROZapata59 min
Jun 2, 12:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROCameron57 min
Jun 2, 12:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron2 hr
Jun 2, 12:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROCameron34 min
Jun 2, 1:43 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron62 min
Jun 2, 1:57 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO33 min
Jun 2, 2:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROWillacy48 min
Jun 2, 2:24 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO51 min
Jun 2, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks, Kenedy32 min
Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROKenedy30 min
Jun 2, 3:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROKenedy54 min
Jun 2, 4:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROKenedy39 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROWillacy37 min
Jun 2, 5:05 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROWillacy2 hr
Jun 2, 5:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROWillacy29 min
Jun 2, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROCameron, Willacy37 min
Jun 2, 5:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROWillacy51 min
Jun 2, 5:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROCameron49 min
Jun 2, 6:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROCameron46 min
Jun 2, 6:18 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo117 min
Jun 2, 6:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROCameron35 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.