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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX

March 16, 2024Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2024, 12:44 AM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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: Mar 16, 2024, 12:44 AM CDT (05:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 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 05:43 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
Mar 15, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 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: 1857 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Mar 16, 12:28 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 12:28 AM CDT, 16 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
Mar 15, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Zapata	48 min
Mar 15, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	43 min
Mar 15, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	60 min
Mar 16, 12:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	3 hr
Mar 16, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BRO	Starr, Zapata	58 min
Mar 16, 1:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	3 hr
Mar 16, 1:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	42 min
Mar 16, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	59 min
Mar 16, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks, Kenedy	44 min
Mar 16, 3:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Kenedy, Willacy	54 min
Mar 16, 3:55 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		65 min
Mar 16, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy	68 min
Mar 16, 5:49 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		41 min

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.