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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 2003, 10:00 AM CDT for Hidalgo County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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 19, 2003, 10:00 AM CDT (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2003, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hidalgo County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:04 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 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 191502
FFWBRO
TXC215-191700-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1000 AM CDT FRI SEP 19 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HIDALGO COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS
* UNTIL NOON CDT
* AT 911 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR
SHOWS UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURRED DURING THE
PAST 3 HOURS IN NORTHERN HIDALGO COUNTY. RAINFALL OF UP TO AN INCH
PER HOUR WAS CURRENTLY FALLING JUST NORTH OF EDINBURG.
* 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 MANUEL...
MCCOOK...WESLACO...SAN JUAN...PHARR...MISSION...MERCEDES...
MCALLEN...EDINBURG...EDCOUCH...DONNA AND ALAMO.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...
EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER
GROUND.
LAT...LON 2677 9801 2661 9801 2660 9798 2645 9803
2643 9790 2609 9792 2609 9823 2627 9858
2678 9834
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 6:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 7:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 10:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 2 hr |
| Sep 19, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 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.