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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 2002, 2:14 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 106 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2002, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 106 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 151914 CCA FFWBRO TXC261-489-152045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 200 PM CDT SUN SEP 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN KENEDY COUNTY AND EASTERN WILLACY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 150 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING OVER THE COASTAL SECTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...BETWEEN RIO HONDO AND BAFFIN BAY. STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR IN THE STRONGEST STORMS IN EASTERN WILLACY AND NORTHEASTERN KENEDY COUNTIES. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP INLAND OVER THE WARNED AREA DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. 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. DRIVE SLOWLY ON WATER-COVERED ROADWAYS TO AVOID HYDRO-PLANING. LAT...LON 2640 9781 2637 9748 2720 9749 2719 9793 $$ SIERRA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 1:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr | 115 min |
| Sep 15, 2:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 116 min |
| Sep 15, 3:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr | 58 min |
| Sep 15, 3:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 64 min |
| Sep 15, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 38 min |
| Sep 15, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 44 min | |
| Sep 15, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 44 min | |
| Sep 15, 4:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr | 55 min |
| Sep 15, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 51 min | |
| Sep 15, 5:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 110 min |
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.