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Special Weather Statement, NWS Brownsville, TX

July 7, 2021Cameron County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2021, 11:43 AM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
Jul 7, 2021, 11:43 AM CDT (16:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2021, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX

County Cameron County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:42 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 2021-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 69 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 2021-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
69 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-31 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 Jul 7, 6:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 6:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 11:43 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 7:25 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROStarr, Zapata74 min
Jul 6, 8:29 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo102 min
Jul 6, 8:35 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron, Hidalgo, Willacy4 hr
Jul 6, 9:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROWillacy3 hr
Jul 6, 9:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROHidalgo108 min
Jul 6, 10:00 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy3 hr
Jul 6, 10:35 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron115 min
Jul 6, 10:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROHidalgo, Starr115 min
Jul 6, 11:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROCameron82 min
Jul 7, 12:27 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron, Hidalgo, Willacy4 hr
Jul 7, 12:33 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron3 hr
Jul 7, 12:43 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo3 hr
Jul 7, 1:50 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO25 min
Jul 7, 2:28 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO62 min
Jul 7, 3:13 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo3 hr
Jul 7, 3:22 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO53 min
Jul 7, 3:57 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron, Hidalgo, Willacy11 hr
Jul 7, 3:59 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo, Starr5 hr
Jul 7, 5:53 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo9 hr
Jul 7, 8:59 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo3 hr
Jul 7, 12:10 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROCameron3 hr
Jul 7, 2:19 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO41 min
Jul 7, 2:56 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO34 min
Jul 7, 3:03 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO42 min
Jul 7, 3:59 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO31 min
Jul 7, 4:48 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO27 min
Jul 7, 6:46 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBROHidalgo, Starr2 hr

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.