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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2023, 11:17 PM CDT for Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 22 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 12, 2023, 11:17 PM CDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2023, 11:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 3404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Zapata | 52 min |
| May 12, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 49 min |
| May 12, 11:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Zapata | 38 min |
| May 13, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Starr | 40 min |
| May 13, 1:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo, Starr | 44 min |
| May 13, 2:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo | 2 hr |
| May 13, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo | 60 min |
| May 13, 2:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Starr | 2 hr |
| May 13, 3:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy | 44 min |
| May 13, 4:01 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 29 min | |
| May 13, 4:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Cameron | 26 min |
| May 13, 4:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron | 26 min |
| May 13, 4:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 98 min |
| May 13, 4:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 48 min | |
| May 13, 4:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 22 min | |
| May 13, 4:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 48 min |
| May 13, 5:03 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 42 min | |
| May 13, 5:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 29 min | |
| May 13, 5:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 45 min | |
| May 13, 6:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 38 min |
| May 13, 6:31 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 44 min | |
| May 13, 7:07 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 38 min | |
| May 13, 8:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Hidalgo, Starr | 3 hr |
| May 13, 9:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 2 hr |
| May 13, 9:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron | 119 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.