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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2004, 6:30 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
- Jun 25, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2004, 9:30 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), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 252330 FFWBRO TXC247-260230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 630 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MOST OF JIM HOGG COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT FROM 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN RECEIVED IN CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY. THESE AMOUNTS...IN CONJUNCTION WITH COPIOUS RAINS RECEIVED LAST NIGHT WILL POSE A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR NIGHTIME FLOODING IN JIM HOGG COUNTY. * 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...GUERRA AND RANDADO. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. REMEMBER...WHEN CONFRONTED WITH WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 2723 9855 2683 9848 2684 9895 2724 9897 $$ PHILO/KVS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 56 min |
| Jun 24, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 5:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Zapata | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 47 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.