Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 1, 2005, 2:05 PM CDT for Starr 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
- Sep 1, 2005, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Starr County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 3429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 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 011906 FFWBRO TXC427-012200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 205 PM CDT THU SEP 1 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL STARR COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ROMA * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 205 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROMA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF EL SAUZ. THE STORM IS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE STORM PRODUCING THIS FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 2635 9887 2650 9877 2665 9905 2648 9916 $$ SPEECE
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 012049 FFSBRO FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 346 PM CDT THU SEP 1 2005 TXC427-012200- STARR TX- 346 PM CDT THU SEP 1 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL STARR COUNTY... AT 340 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE FLASH FLOODING PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF RIO GRANDE CITY TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL SAUZ...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THE THESE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 2635 9887 2650 9877 2665 9905 2648 9916 $$ SPEECE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron | 116 min |
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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.