Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 4, 1996, 9:01 AM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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 4, 1996, 9:01 AM CDT (14:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 1996, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 041402 FFWBRO TXC061-041700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 901 AM CDT FRI OCT 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH TEXAS ...CAMERON COUNTY A FLOOD WARNING EXISTS FOR CAMERON COUNTY UNTIL NOON... VERY HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT OF OVER 4 INCHES IS CAUSING FLOODING OVER THE SOUTH PART OF CAMERON COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAIN OF AT LEAST TWO INCHES IS EXPECTED OVER CAMERON AND SOUTH WILLACY COUNTIES LATE THIS MORNING AND I OTHIS AFTERNOON. IN THE CITY OF BROWNSVILLE MANY STREETS HAVE BEEN CLOSE DTO FLOODING AND REPORTS OF WATER RISING INTO HOMES HAS BEEN RECEIVED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICK LY. 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.
NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 4, 8:55 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 8:55 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 855 AM CDT FRI OCT 4 1996 HVY RN BRO VCNTY THIS MRNG. RN CONFINED MAINLY TO CAMERON AND E HIDALGO COUNTIES SO FAR...WITH LITTLE IF ANY ELSEWHERE. LARGE RAIN SHIELD OVR W GULF E OF BRO. SOME DCRS NOTED SINCE I CHECKED IN THIS MRNG. RN SHLD EASE ACRSS AREA INTO THIS AFTN...BUT ITS NOT OVER YET. LOW STILL TRYING TO ORGANIZE OVR W GULF...AND THIS SHOULD CONT TO PRODUCE RN BANDS AND BRING THEM INLAND OVR FA. HVST RN AT NIGHT...TYPICAL FOR TROPICAL SYSTEMS. EVEN THO HVST RN HAS BEEN CONFINED TO THE LWR VLY...SHOULD CONSIDER FFA FOR INLAND AREAS. CONT CFA. WL LIKELY RMV MENTION OF WINDY IN UPDATE AS DO NOT REALLY SEE MUCH TO CREATE ANY WIND. BLV ARND 15 MPH SHLD SUFFICE. REST OF CURRENT PACKAGE LOOKS FINE. 54
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.