Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 1993, 8:00 PM CDT for Brooks County, Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1993, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1993, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brooks County, TX, Kenedy County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 952 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBRO 210102 FFWBRO TXC047-261-210500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 800 PM CDT SUN JUN 20 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...EASTERN BROOKS COUNTY...KENEDY COUNTY RADAR AND WEATHER SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATE THAT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING IN EASTERN BROOKS COUNTY AND KENEDY COUNTY WITH ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS APPROACHING FIVE INCHES. THE RAINFALL IN KENEDY COUNTY IS IN ADDITION TO SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN ESTIMATED BY SATELLITE EARLIER TODAY. THE RAINFALL IS BEING PRODUCED BY TROPICAL DEPRESSION ARLENE. ARLENE IS STATIONARY... AND THAT AREA OF HEAVY RAIN IS MOVING LITTLE. SO SEVERAL INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO rGREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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, 2:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 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 AR EA 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 9:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Willacy | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.