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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 4, 2023Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2023, 5:54 PM CDT for Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 4, 2023, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2023, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Willacy County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 453 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -552 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 4, 2:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 4:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:18 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:26 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:35 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:48 PM CDT, 6 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
Jun 3, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	52 min
Jun 3, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	40 min
Jun 3, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Zapata	43 min
Jun 3, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr	51 min
Jun 3, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	41 min
Jun 3, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	51 min
Jun 3, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr, Zapata	36 min
Jun 3, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	47 min
Jun 3, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	51 min
Jun 3, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	48 min
Jun 3, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	45 min
Jun 3, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	23 min
Jun 3, 10:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	34 min
Jun 3, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		47 min
Jun 3, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	33 min
Jun 3, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	46 min
Jun 4, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		93 min
Jun 4, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		45 min
Jun 4, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Kenedy	42 min
Jun 4, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	49 min
Jun 4, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	42 min
Jun 4, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		64 min
Jun 4, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	17 min
Jun 4, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	45 min
Jun 4, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	46 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.