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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 2003, 6:01 PM CDT for Hidalgo 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 6, 2003, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hidalgo County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 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 062303 FFWBRO TXC215-070200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 601 PM CDT MON OCT 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN HIDALGO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN SOUTHEASTERN HIDALGO COUNTY NEAR PROGRESSO. EXPECT HOURLY RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES IN THIS AREA. * 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...WESLACO...MERCEDES...DONNA AND PROGRESO. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. 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. PHILO LAT...LON 2625 9788 2599 9789 2600 9808 2625 9807 $$ PHILO
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 062326 FFSBRO TXC215-062350- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 624 PM CDT MON OCT 6 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN HIDALGO COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND MOVED SOUTH INTO ADJACENT MEXICO. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN HIDALGO COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED. EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 2623 9790 2596 9790 2601 9828 2618 9832 $$ PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 39 min |
| Oct 6, 6:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy | 67 min |
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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.