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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2003, 6:12 PM CDT for Jim Hogg 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
- Jul 2, 2003, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jim Hogg County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 022315 FFWBRO TXC247-030200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 612 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 606 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NOW OCCURRING ACROSS CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT FROM 3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR AROUND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF RANDADO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT AROUND 5 MPH. * 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...RANDADO. 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 2726 9863 2697 9862 2696 9895 2725 9894 $$ SPEECE
4 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KBRO 030041 FFSBRO TXC247-030200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 740 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY... AT 740 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2727 9863 2698 9862 2696 9895 2725 9895 $$ SPEECE
000 WGUS74 KBRO 030051 FFSBRO TXC247-030200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 749 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY... AT 749 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE OCCURRED OVER SOUTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY SINCE 7 PM. 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...GUERRA. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2696 9862 2679 9861 2679 9895 2695 9896 $$ SPEECE
000 WGUS74 KBRO 030151 FFSBRO TXC247-030300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 851 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM...BUT ARE BEGINNING TO DISSIPATE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BY MIDNIGHT. LAT...LON 2726 9863 2696 9862 2696 9895 2725 9895 $$ SPEECE
000 WGUS74 KBRO 030157 FFSBRO TXC247-030230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 854 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN JIM HOGG COUNTY 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. LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER JIM HOGG COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM...BUT ARE BEGINNING TO DISSIPATE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BY MIDNIGHT. LAT...LON 2695 9862 2678 9862 2679 9895 2694 9895 $$ SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.