Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 14, 2004, 3:29 PM CST for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Mar 14, 2004, 3:29 PM CST (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2004, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 671 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KBRO 142130
FFWBRO
TXC261-142330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
329 PM CST SUN MAR 14 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS
* UNTIL 530 PM CST
* AT 329 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO
25 MPH ACROSS NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED
FROM 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY
DURING THE PAST HOUR.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SARITA AND THE PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 77 IN NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY.
FLOODING IN NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY 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 2727 9744 2706 9746 2705 9798 2721 9798
2728 9779
$$
SPEECE/STRAUB1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 142303 FFSBRO TXC261-142330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 455 PM CST SUN MAR 14 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY... AT 455 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST OVER NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR NEAR THE TOWN OF SARITA AND OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 77 IN KENEDY COUNTY. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ SPEECE
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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.