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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Brownsville, TX

June 25, 2004Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2004, 7:17 PM CDT for Kenedy 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, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
3 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), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 72 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-238 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KBRO 260019
FFWBRO
TXC261-260330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
717 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 717 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.     
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS LIKELY TO
  BLANKET THE SATURATED GROUND OF KENEDY COUNTY TONIGHT.

* 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 AND MOST OF HIGHWAY 77.

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.

LAT...LON 2742 9717 2667 9745 2664 9795 2723 9796

$$

PHILO/KVS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROStarr3 hr
Jun 25, 8:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROZapata3 hr
Jun 25, 8:54 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO96 min
Jun 25, 8:54 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningBRO96 min
Jun 25, 9:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROHidalgo108 min
Jun 25, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo, Starr53 min
Jun 25, 9:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROCameron, Willacy3 hr
Jun 26, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo40 min
Jun 26, 4:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROHidalgo2 hr
Jun 26, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROKenedy46 min
Jun 26, 5:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROKenedy3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.