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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 14, 2001Zapata County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2001, 10:43 PM CDT for Zapata 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: Jun 14, 2001, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2001, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Zapata County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3988 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KBRO 150343
FFWBRO
TXC505-150620-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1043 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 115 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS
     NORTHERN ZAPATA

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     ZAPATA...SAN YGNACIO...BUSTAMANTE...ESCOBAS...RAMIRENO

A FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED OVER NORTHERN ZAPATA COUNTY. A FLOOD 
WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED. THE 
SHERIFF IN ZAPATA COUNTY REPORTED PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 83 FROM ZAPATA 
TO SAN YGNACIO AND ON STATE ROUTE 16 FROM ZAPATA TO BUSTAMANTE ARE 
PONDING WITH WATER. FARM TO MARKET 3169 MAY BE PONDING WITH WATER 
AS WELL.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO TRAIN OVER NORTHERN
ZAPATA COUNTY FROM MEXICO DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS 
FRIDAY. THIS WILL ONLY SERVE TO EXASPERATE AREAS THAT ARE ALREADY 
PONDING WITH WATER. TRAINING IS DEFINED WHEN STORMS MOVE OVER
THE SAME AREA OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE 
THIS LATE EVENING INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS...AS ADDITIONAL 
STORMS OVER NORTHEAST MEXICO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO 
ZAPATA COUNTY. THE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT SINCE IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF FLOODED AREAS. USE CAUTION IN AND AROUND STREAMS... 
CREEKS...ARROYOS OR DRAINAGE DITCHES. FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF 
CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY FLOOD AS WELL. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH RISING 
WATER. 

STAYED TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS AND 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO.

$$

CORDERO/CASTILLO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Zapata	60 min
Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	30 min
Jun 15, 12:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Willacy	24 min
Jun 15, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	47 min
Jun 15, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	39 min
Jun 15, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	62 min
Jun 15, 1:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	46 min
Jun 15, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo	45 min
Jun 15, 2:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	4 hr
Jun 15, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy	50 min
Jun 15, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo	45 min
Jun 15, 3:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron	3 hr
Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy	55 min
Jun 15, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron	42 min
Jun 15, 6:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Cameron	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.