Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 1998, 5:14 PM CDT for Starr 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
- Sep 22, 1998, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Starr County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 222214 FFWBRO TXC427-230015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 514 PM CDT TUE SEP 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... STARR COUNTY IN SOUTHERN TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT AT 510 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN SOUTHERN STARR COUNTY. .. MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * RIO GRANDE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINS OVER A TWO HOUR PERIOD WITH STREET FLOODING AND PONDING ON NUMEROUS ROADWAYS. BROWNSVILLE RADAR SHOWED ESTIMATED RAINFALL TOTALS OF OVER THREE INCHES DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! PHILO &
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 Sep 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 200 PM CDT TUE SEP 22 1998 BRO SOUNDING THIS MORNING INDCTD A 1.92 PRECIP WATER AND A MINUS 3 SHOWALTER INDEX. THIS SHOWS INCREASED ACTIVITY OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS CAUSING INCREASED SHOWERS. A TROPICAL WAVE OVER THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO IS FORECAST BY BOTH THE ETA AND AVN TO MOVE WESTWARD TOWARD DEEP SOUTH TEXAS CAUSING A VERY GOOD CHANCE FOR RAIN ON WEDNESDAY. WILL GO FOR HIGH POPS ON WEDNESDAY...BUT ASSUMING THE WAVE WILL MOVE INLAND SHOULD DRY THINGS OUT QUITE ABIT BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NOT AS WARM ON WEDNESDAY DUE TO CLOUD COVER FROM THE WAVE AND THEN WARMER ON THURSDAY WITH LESS CLOUD COVER. LONG TERM PROGS INDCT FAIRLY DRY WEATHER COONDITIONS...ALTHOUGH ALL DEPENDS ON EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS TO HURRICANE GEORGES WHICH RIGHT NOW IS FORECAST TO MOVE TOWARD SOUTH FLORIDA. RIDGE IS DOMINATING THE WEATHER PATTERN THROUGH THE WEEKEND...ASSUMING GEORGES MOVES NORTH. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ON THE WARM SIDE WITH FAIRLY LIGHT WINDS. .TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 70S. LIGHT AND VARIABLE WIND. .WEDNESDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 60 PERCENT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS FROM THE MID 80S EAST TO NEAR 90 WEST. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH. .WEDNESDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 70S. .THURSDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS FROM THE LOWER 90S EAST TO THE UPPER 90S FAR WEST. .BRO 74/086/74/092/75 30/60/20/00 .MFE 75/089/75/096/76 30/60/20/00 .RGD 73/090/73/099/74 30/60/20/00 .SPI 77/083/77/086/78 30/60/20/00 55
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 22, 4:27 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
TXZ248>250-252-253-222320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 427 PM CDT TUE SEP 22 1998 ...HEAVY RAINS FALL OVER INLAND DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... A TROPICAL WAVE OVER THE ADJACENT GULF WATERS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS IS CAUSING HEAVY RAINFALL IN NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER HIDALGO...STARR AND EXTREME NORTHWESTERN CAMERON COUNTIES. RAINFALL RATES OF 2 INCHES AN HOUR ARE BEING RECORDED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN BROWNSVILLE. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR COMMUTERS IN THESE AREAS. REMEMBER TO DRIVE ACCORDING TO WEATHER CONDITIONS AND PREVAILING VISIBILITIES. ALSO...PONDING ON ROADWAYS IS COMMON DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS HERE IN THE VALLEY. SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE HEAVY RAINS. RIO GRANDE CITY IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF STREET AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED... ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION...OR YOUR LOCAL CABLE OUTLET FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. PHILO
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.