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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 13, 2024Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2024, 8:32 AM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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 13, 2024, 8:32 AM CDT (13:32 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2024, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:32 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 3519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.1

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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 May 13, 6:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 13, 6:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 7:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 7:50 AM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:00 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:08 AM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:12 AM CDT, 20 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
May 13, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	49 min
May 13, 6:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	42 min
May 13, 7:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	28 min
May 13, 7:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	25 min
May 13, 8:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	30 min
May 13, 8:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	22 min
May 13, 8:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	33 min
May 13, 8:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	23 min
May 13, 8:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	30 min
May 13, 8:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	25 min
May 13, 8:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	34 min
May 13, 9:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	24 min
May 13, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	26 min
May 13, 10:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	30 min
May 13, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	48 min
May 13, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	46 min
May 13, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	48 min
May 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	26 min
May 13, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	51 min
May 13, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr	47 min
May 13, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Zapata	46 min
May 13, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	38 min
May 13, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	23 min
May 13, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	42 min
May 13, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	38 min
May 13, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo	37 min
May 13, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	39 min
May 13, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		51 min
May 13, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Zapata	35 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.