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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 31, 2016Hidalgo County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2016, 11:37 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports 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: May 31, 2016, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2016, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.0 in

County Hidalgo County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 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
May 31, 11:55 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	S Pharr, TX	CITY OF PHARR EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL SOUTH OF PHARR
Jun 1, 12:05 AM CDT	TORNADO	Pharr, TX	CITY OF PHARR POLICE RECEIVED TWO REPORTS OF POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR I ROAD AND MILITARY AS WELL AS NEAR POLK AND I ROAD

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 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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.

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WFUS54 KBRO 010437
TORBRO
TXC215-010500-
/O.NEW.KBRO.TO.W.0003.160601T0437Z-160601T0500Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1137 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL HIDALGO COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
    
* AT 1137 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTH PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL...OR OVER
  HIDALGO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAS MILPAS...PHARR FIRE STATION THREE AND J.C. KELLY ELEMENTARY 
  SCHOOL AROUND 1140 PM CDT. 
  SANTA ANA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AROUND 1150 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
SPRING FEST PARK...DOCTOR ALEJO SALINAS JUNIOR ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL...BOEYE RESERVOIR...LAKE TEXANO...PALM CITY PARK...ROOSEVELT
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL... KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL...CARLSON LAKE...HIDALGO
INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE AND MCALLEN.

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 OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 2607 9818 2606 9818 2606 9819 2608 9822
      2607 9825 2610 9829 2611 9827 2612 9827
      2612 9830 2610 9830 2612 9832 2622 9823
      2610 9805 2606 9809 2607 9810 2606 9813
      2607 9813 2605 9815
TIME...MOT...LOC 0437Z 304DEG 23KT 2613 9822 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.00IN

$$

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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, 11:46 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, 1:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	39 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

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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.