Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 14, 2003, 12:04 PM CDT for Cameron 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 14, 2003, 12:04 PM CDT (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cameron County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 2207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 141707 FFWBRO TXC061-142000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1204 PM CDT TUE OCT 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT NOON CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED NEAR AN 1 INCH PER HOUR OVER PARTS OF CAMERON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY NEAR SOUTH PADRE ISLAND. * 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...PORT ISABEL...SAN BENITO...LA FERIA...HARLINGEN... BROWNSVILLE...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...SANTA ROSA...RIO HONDO...RANCHO VIEJO...LOS FRESNOS...LAGUNA VISTA AND LAGUNA HEIGHTS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. 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. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BROWNSVILLE. LAT...LON 2631 9782 2606 9785 2570 9712 2625 9720 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KBRO 141807 FFSBRO TXC061-141900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 100 PM CDT TUE OCT 14 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CAMERON COUNTY UNTIL 3 PM... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS UNTIL 9 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH OVER SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED BETWEEN BAYVIEW AND RANCHO VIEJO IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THESE SHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERATING RAINFALL RATES OF BETWEEN 1 AND 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAINFALL PER HOUR. REMEMBER...RUNOFF FROM THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THAT HAS ALREADY FALLEN WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES VERY HIGH RAINFALL TOTALS HAVE ALREADY BEEN RECEIVED IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY FROM HEAVY RAINS YESTERDAY. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ 65
000 WGUS74 KBRO 141911 FFSBRO TXC061-142000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 210 PM CDT TUE OCT 14 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CAMERON COUNTY UNTIL 3 PM... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS UNTIL 9 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH OVER SOUTHEASTERN CAMERON COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED NEAR BROWNSVILLE AND THE RIO GRANDE EASTWARD TO BOCA CHICA BEACH IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERATING RAINFALL BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL PER HOUR. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHWARD INTO MEXICO DURING THE NEXT HOUR. HOWEVER SOME LIGHTER RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEASTERN CAMERON COUNTY THROUGH 3 PM. REMEMBER...RUNOFF FROM THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THAT HAS ALREADY FALLEN WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES VERY HIGH RAINFALL TOTALS HAVE ALREADY BEEN RECEIVED IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY FROM HEAVY RAINS YESTERDAY. 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. $$ 62
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 4:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron | 107 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.