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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2002, 4:24 AM CDT for Jim Hogg 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2002, 4:24 AM CDT (09:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2002, 7:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jim Hogg County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 160924 FFWBRO TXC247-161225- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 425 AM CDT TUE JUL 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 725 AM CDT * AT 424 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 8 MILES SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF HEBBRONVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL DURING THE PAST HOUR IN THIS AREA. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...RANDADO AND HEBBRONVILLE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 2684 9892 2683 9857 2735 9857 2725 9892 PHILO
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 161039 FFSBRO TXC247-161225- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 540 AM CDT TUE JUL 16 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR JIM HOGG COUNTY UNTIL 725 AM... AT 539 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER MOST OF NORTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER NORTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY...JUST SOUTH OF HEBBRONVILLE. PEOPLE TRAVELING SOUTH OF HEBBRONVILLE IN NORTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY SHOULD WATCH FOR FLOODED AREAS. THIS SAME AREA RECEIVED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL FROM STORMS YESTERDAY. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 2683 9895 2683 9848 2739 9852 2734 9892 PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:33 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 57 min | |
| Jul 16, 3:33 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 57 min | |
| Jul 16, 6:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Zapata | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 9:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Zapata | 3 hr |
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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.