Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 2002, 7:56 AM CDT for Starr 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
- Sep 16, 2002, 7:56 AM CDT (12:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2002, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Starr County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 161256 FFWBRO TXC427-161545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 755 AM CDT MON SEP 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN STARR COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 1045 AM CDT * AT 750 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FALCON DAM...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL PER HOUR ARE FALLING ALONG INTERSTATE 83 BETWEEN FALCON DAM AND ROMA. * HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...FALCON DAM...ROMA AND EL SAUZ. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 2643 9902 2652 9884 2666 9899 2657 9913 CASTILLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 38 min | |
| Sep 16, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 77 min | |
| Sep 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 38 min | |
| Sep 16, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.