Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 2003, 12:14 AM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 106 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
- Sep 22, 2003, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 106 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cameron County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 1769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 220519 FFWBRO TXC061-220700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1214 AM CDT MON SEP 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 1212 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF NEAR 3/4 INCH PER 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 FLOODING INCLUDE...SAN BENITO...HARLINGEN...RIO HONDO. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 2628 9750 2589 9754 2605 9786 2624 9773 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 220614 FFSBRO TXC061-220700- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 110 AM CDT MON SEP 22 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR WESTERN CAMERON COUNTY... AT 110 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN CAMERON COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT FROM ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN FROM 3 TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF SAN BENITO SINCE MIDNIGHT. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO OCCUR... ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...SAN BENITO. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron | 118 min |
Nearby
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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.