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Hurricane Warning 1008, NWS Brownsville, TX

July 24, 2020Brooks County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this hurricane warning at Jul 24, 2020, 9:54 PM CDT for Brooks County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 28 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 2020, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2020, 1:26 AM CDT
In force: 28 hr
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

Counties Brooks County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1066 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this hurricane warning 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 hurricane warning went out at Jul 24, 6:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 6:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 3:59 AM CDT	Storm Surge Warning	BRO	Kenedy	25 hr
Jul 25, 4:00 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	BRO	Kenedy	72 hr
Jul 25, 4:00 AM CDT	High Surf Advisory	BRO	Kenedy	53 hr
Jul 25, 9:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy	83 min
Jul 25, 12:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	20 min
Jul 25, 2:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy	3 hr
Jul 25, 3:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Kenedy	4 hr
Jul 25, 3:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	4 hr
Jul 25, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		58 min
Jul 25, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		61 min
Jul 25, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		59 min
Jul 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy	10 hr
Jul 25, 5:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	4 hr
Jul 25, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		117 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.