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Special Weather Statement, NWS Brownsville, TX

November 7, 2016Brooks County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this special weather statement at Nov 7, 2016, 3:51 PM CST for Brooks 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
Nov 7, 2016, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 2016, 4:30 PM CST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX

County Brooks County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 12:00Z on 2016-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1064 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 12:00Z on 2016-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1064 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 12:53 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron112 min
Nov 7, 3:22 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementBROBrooks53 min
Nov 7, 3:34 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementBROBrooks41 min
Nov 7, 3:46 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementBROJim Hogg44 min
Nov 7, 5:41 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementBROStarr34 min

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.