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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 17, 1997Brooks County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 1997, 11:25 PM CDT for Brooks County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
Jun 17, 1997, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brooks County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3875 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
3875 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks63 min
Jun 17, 11:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROZapata2 hr
Jun 17, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROZapata2 hr
Jun 18, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo, Starr61 min
Jun 18, 2:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo, Starr69 min
Jun 18, 4:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROStarr6 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.