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Special Weather Statement, NWS Brownsville, TX

August 2, 2020Cameron County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2020, 2:07 PM CDT for Cameron 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: Aug 2, 2020, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2020, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

County Cameron County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1512 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -43 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 Aug 2, 1:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 1:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 4:24 AM CDT, 9 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 2, 12:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 12:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 1:58 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:07 PM CDT, 0 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
Aug 1, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Kenedy	60 min
Aug 1, 7:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Starr	4 hr
Aug 1, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	67 min
Aug 1, 7:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	47 min
Aug 1, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	45 min
Aug 1, 7:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr	2 hr
Aug 1, 7:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Kenedy	2 hr
Aug 1, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	56 min
Aug 1, 7:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Starr	5 hr
Aug 1, 8:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	3 hr
Aug 1, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	57 min
Aug 1, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	49 min
Aug 1, 8:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	3 hr
Aug 1, 8:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	3 hr
Aug 1, 8:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo	4 hr
Aug 1, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	46 min
Aug 1, 9:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo	3 hr
Aug 1, 9:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Starr	3 hr
Aug 1, 9:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	95 min
Aug 1, 11:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	14 min
Aug 1, 11:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo, Willacy	42 min
Aug 2, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	47 min
Aug 2, 1:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Willacy	3 hr
Aug 2, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Kenedy	49 min
Aug 2, 2:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	6 days
Aug 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	89 min
Aug 2, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	44 min
Aug 2, 3:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	55 min
Aug 2, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	67 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.