Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 24, 2002, 6:53 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 82 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 24, 2002, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 82 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 242353 FFWBRO TXC261-250115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 653 PM CDT THU OCT 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 644 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CENTRAL KENEDY COUNTY. THE LINE IS MOVING SOUTHWARD TOWARD THE KENEDY/WILLACY COUNTY BORDER. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR. * 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...SARITA AND BORDER PATROL. 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 2663 9798 2662 9747 2727 9741 2725 9795 $$ JAH
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 250033 FFSBRO TXC261-250115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 730 PM CDT THU OCT 24 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN KENEDY COUNTY... AT 720 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING EAST-NORTHEAST FROM THE KENEDY-HIDALGO COUNTY BORDER TOWARD THE COAST. THE STORMS ARE PRODUCING HOURLY RAIN RATES BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES PER HOUR. THE ENTIRE LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING SOUTHWARD TOWARD THE KENEDY-WILLACY COUNTY LINE....WHERE IT IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE BY 815 PM CDT. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS WHERE FLOODING IS POSSIBLE INCLUDE...HIGHWAY 77...AS WELL AS LOW LYING SPOTS ALONG IT. ALSO...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURRING OVER ARROYOS IN THE WARNED AREA DUE TO ANTECEDENT SOIL CONDITIONS. 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 2726 9799 2662 9799 2662 9737 2726 9738
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 107 min | |
| Oct 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 107 min | |
| Oct 24, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Oct 24, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| Oct 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 117 min |
| Oct 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 67 days |
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.