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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 22, 2002, 8:17 PM CDT for Brooks County, Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 118 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
- Oct 22, 2002, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brooks County, TX, Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 230117 FFWBRO TXC047-261-230315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 816 PM CDT TUE OCT 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 816 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN BROWNSVILLE DETECTED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES WEST OF FALFURRIAS TO SARITA...MOVING NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SECTIONS OF NORTHERN BROOKS AND NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTIES SINCE 7 PM. THE AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE HEAVIEST RAIN ARE OVER THE NORTHWESTERN CORNERS OF BROOKS AND KENEDY COUNTIES. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. 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. LAT...LON 2695 9841 2690 9756 2726 9746 2728 9843 $$ SPEECE
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 230241 FFSBRO TXC047-230315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 940 PM CDT TUE OCT 22 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN BROOKS COUNTY... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.. AT 940 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN BROWNSVILLE INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FALFURRIAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. THE LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING WILL BE MAINLY THE RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN BROOKS COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 281. THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED OVER NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY. ACCORDINGLY...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THIS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. $$ SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 7:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 113 min |
| Oct 22, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 2 hr |
| Oct 22, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Oct 22, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Oct 22, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 112 min |
| Oct 22, 10:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks | 113 min |
| Oct 22, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 45 hr |
| Oct 23, 4:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 3 hr | |
| Oct 23, 4:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.