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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Brownsville, TX

October 6, 1996Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 1996, 12:05 PM CDT for Cameron County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 6, 1996, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
Expired: Oct 6, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cameron County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 6, 9:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 9:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 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
Oct 6, 1:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	11 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.