Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 26, 2002, 1:49 AM CDT for Cameron 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
- Oct 26, 2002, 1:49 AM CDT (06:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2002, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cameron County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 1449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 260649 FFWBRO TXC061-260945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 150 AM CDT SAT OCT 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 445 AM CDT * AT 144 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 7 MILES SOUTH OF BROWNSVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR WITH THESE STORMS. * 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...SAN BENITO...RIO HONDO AND LOS FRESNOS. 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. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 2605 9773 2605 9725 2630 9736 2628 9767 CASTILLO
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KBRO 260811 FFSBRO TXC061-260945- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 310 AM CDT SAT OCT 26 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 445 AM CDT FOR CAMERON COUNTY... AT 307 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 19 MILES SOUTH OF BROWNSVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. 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...SAN BENITO...BROWNSVILLE... RANCHO VIEJO...LOS FRESNOS...LAGUNA VISTA AND LAGUNA HEIGHTS. 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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 2590 9752 2605 9720 2626 9738 2620 9768 CASTILLO/PHILO
000 WGUS74 KBRO 260919 FFSBRO TXC061-260945- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 419 AM CDT SAT OCT 26 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 445 AM CDT FOR CAMERON COUNTY... AT 418 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR BROWNSVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. 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...SAN BENITO...HARLINGEN... BROWNSVILLE...RIO HONDO...RANCHO VIEJO AND LOS FRESNOS. 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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 2587 9740 2624 9736 2625 9765 2610 9784 CASTILLO
000 WGUS74 KBRO 260955 FFSBRO TXC061-261010- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 455 AM CDT SAT OCT 26 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR 445 AM CDT FOR CAMERON COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLASH FLOODING THREAT. EVEN THOUGH STREAM AND CREEK LEVELS ARE NOW FALLING...SOME ROADWAYS MAY STILL BE COVERED WITH WATER. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 2601 9770 2587 9718 2623 9734 2620 9782 CASTILLO
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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.