Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 1993, 2:19 PM CDT for Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1993, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1993, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Willacy County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 67 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ041>044-514-201900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1105 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT SUNDAY FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AIR HERE IS OVER-LADEN WITH MOISTURE. TROPICAL DEPRESSION ARLENE NEAR KINGSVILLE MAY BE THE MECHANISM TO RELEASE THE OVER-ABUNDANCE MAKING IT INTO HEAVY RAIN. RAIN HAS ALREADY BEEN SIGNIFICANT OVER THE AREA. IT HAS RAINED EVERYWHERE OVER THE AREA THE PAST 24 HOURS. AMOUNTS AMOUNTS HAVE AVERAGED AROUND AN INCH. HEAVIEST WERE NEAR THE COAST. PORT ISABEL HAD 3.66 INCHES. PORT MANSFIELD HAD 2.00 INCHES. A TROPICAL DEPRESSION OFTEN BRINGS MORE RAIN THAN A HURRICANE. THE POSSIBILITY BEARS CLOSE WATCH. AT 1025 AM RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BAFFIN BAY TO NEAR FALCON LAKE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST. SOME OF THE RAIN WAS HEAVY. THERE HAVE LIKELY BEEN 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER SOUTH KENEDY COUNTY THE PAST 4 HOURS. IT IS RAIN CAUSED BY DEPRESSION ARLENE AND WAS MOVING DOWN THE SYSTEMS WEST SIDE. KEEP CLOSE TABS ON THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FLOODING COULD DEVELOP. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER GULF WATER`S ON ARLENES EAST SIDE..MOVING TO THE NORTH.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ041>044-514-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1150 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT SUNDAY FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AT 1125 AM A LARGE OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER SOUTH TEXAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM BAFFIN BAY TO RIO GRANDE CITY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE GULF WATERS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OFF SHORE FROM CORPUS CHRISTI TO LA PESCA IN MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. WEST SIDE. KEEP CLOSE TABS ON THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FLOODING COULD DEVELOP. OTHER SHbOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER GULF WATERS ON ARLENES EAST SIDE..MOVING TO THE NORTH.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
TXZ041>044-514-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1150 AM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT SUNDAY FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AT 1125 AM A LARGE OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER SOUTH TEXAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM BAFFIN BAY TO RIO GRANDE CITY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE GULF WATERS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OFF SHORE FROM CORPUS CHRISTI TO LA PESCA IN MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. WEST SIDE. KEEP CLOSE TABS ON THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FLOODING COULD DEVELOP. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER GULF WATERS ON ARLENES EAST SIDE..MOVING TO THE NORTH.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 12:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
TXZ041>044-514-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1235 PM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT SUNDAY FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... ...A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WILLACY COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM TODAY... PERSISTANT RAINFALL IN NORTHERN WILLACY COUNTY HAS CAUSED LOCAL FLOODING IN DOWNTOWN RAYMONDVILLE AND THE NORTHSIDE OF RAYMONDVILLE. AT 130 PM A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAS PERSISTS OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS BETWEEN BAFFIN BAY.. HEBBRONVILLE.. AND SOUTH TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE RIVER BETWEEN FALCON LAKE AND BROWNSVILLE. THERE WAS LITTLE SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENT TO THIS AREA OF RAINFALL AND CONTINUED RAIN FALL IS EXPECTED TODAY. ELSEWHERE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER THE GULF AND MEXICO BETWEEN CORPUS CHRISTI AND 130 MILES SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF BROWNSVILLE.. AND EXTENDING TO 100 MILES OFF SHORE.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 12:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
TXZ041>044-514-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1235 PM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT SUNDAY FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... AT 1225 PM A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... WERE OVER SOUTH TEXAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BAFFIN BAY TO HEBBRONVILLE TO RIO GRANDE CITY. THIS AREA CAN EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR. MO:VMENT OF THIS AREA IS SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES AND HOUR. OVER THE GULF WATERS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OFF SHORE FROM CORPUS CHRISTI TO LA PESCA IN MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Willacy | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Willacy | 3 hr |
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.