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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX

September 16, 1988Cameron County, Hidalgo County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1988, 11:23 PM CDT for Cameron County, Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 16, 1988, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 1988, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 1988-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 103 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 1988-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 392 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
392 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
460 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.