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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 2003, 6:53 PM CDT for Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 6, 2003, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 2016 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 062359 FFWBRO TXC047-247-261-070100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 653 PM CDT MON OCT 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN KENEDY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS BEN RECEIVED IN CENTRAL JIM HOGG...BROOKS AND KENEDY COUNTIES. AREAS OF HIGHWAY 1017 IN CENTRAL JIM HOGG AND HIGHWAY 281...BETWEEN FALFURRIAS AND ENCINO...HAVE RECEIVED 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL DURING THE PAST 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...SARITA...FALFURRIAS...RANDADO...BORDER PATROL AND ENCINO. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. WHEN DRIVING IN THIS WARNED AREA...ANTICIPATE ROADWAY PONDING AND LOW VISIBILITIES IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. WHEN IN DOUBT...TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN. PHILO LAT...LON 2726 9770 2694 9763 2687 9886 2725 9893 $$ PHILO
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 070055 FFSBRO TXC047-247-261-070108- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 759 PM CDT MON OCT 6 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KENEDY... BROOKS AND JIM HOGG COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 2718 9776 2689 9781 2685 9892 2726 9892 $$ 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, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 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.