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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2020, 5:10 PM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2020, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2020, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Hidalgo County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 6, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 6, 4:42 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 5, 9:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Zapata | 49 min |
| May 5, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 40 min |
| May 5, 11:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 69 min |
| May 6, 12:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 56 min |
| May 6, 12:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 49 min |
| May 6, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 33 min |
| May 6, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 46 min |
| May 6, 5:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Hidalgo | 92 min |
| May 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Starr | 90 min |
| May 6, 6:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 95 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.