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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 5, 2024Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2024, 5:42 PM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 5, 2024, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2024, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 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 22:41 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 nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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: 1134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 6.5

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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 5, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 5, 5:18 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
518 PM CDT Sun May 5 2024

TXZ249-250-052300-
Brooks TX-Jim Hogg TX-
518 PM CDT Sun May 5 2024

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHERN JIM HOGG AND NORTHERN
BROOKS COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM CDT...

At 517 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms 8 miles northwest of Realitos, or 14 miles west of
Benavides, moving southeast at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Falfurrias, Hebbronville, Gruy Stadium, La Colonia Park, Airport Road
Addition, South Fork Estates, Falfurrias Junior High School, Las
Lomitas, Pleasant Park, and Jim Hogg County Airport.

This includes US Highway 281 between mile markers 708 and 726.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 2734 9855 2734 9852 2727 9852 2726 9799
      2698 9799 2711 9895 2727 9889 2727 9880
      2735 9879 2736 9863 2734 9862 2734 9859
      2736 9859 2736 9855
TIME...MOT...LOC 2217Z 330DEG 29KT 2754 9863

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

GB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	42 min
May 5, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	51 min
May 5, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Kenedy	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2024 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.