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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 5, 2023Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2023, 2:10 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 5, 2023, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2023, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 2081 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.3

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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, 6:31 PM CDT, 19 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:31 PM CDT, 19 hours 39 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 4, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	48 min
Jun 4, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Zapata	52 min
Jun 4, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	43 min
Jun 4, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	38 min
Jun 4, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BRO	Cameron	20 min
Jun 4, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	48 min
Jun 4, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	32 min
Jun 4, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	22 min
Jun 4, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	49 min
Jun 4, 9:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Zapata	50 min
Jun 4, 10:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Zapata	66 min
Jun 4, 10:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	46 min
Jun 5, 8:53 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		25 min
Jun 5, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		31 min
Jun 5, 12:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Kenedy	22 min
Jun 5, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		46 min
Jun 5, 1:22 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		23 min
Jun 5, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Starr	29 min
Jun 5, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		44 min
Jun 5, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		26 min
Jun 5, 1:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	46 min
Jun 5, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	41 min
Jun 5, 2:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		42 min
Jun 5, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	17 min
Jun 5, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	40 min
Jun 5, 3:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Starr	59 min
Jun 5, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	50 min
Jun 5, 3:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Starr	53 min
Jun 5, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	35 min
Jun 5, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	30 min
Jun 5, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	40 min
Jun 5, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	8 min
Jun 5, 4:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Starr	103 min
Jun 5, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	43 min
Jun 5, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo	26 min
Jun 5, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	36 min
Jun 5, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	32 min
Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr	24 min
Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy	42 min
Jun 5, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	51 min
Jun 5, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	10 min
Jun 5, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	13 min
Jun 5, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	26 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.