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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 15, 2023, 1:26 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 16, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Jun 15, 2023, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 16, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 418 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:42 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy | 17 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:28 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 18 hr | |
| Jun 15, 1:26 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Willacy, Zapata | 30 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.