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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX

July 15, 2005Brooks County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2005, 5:56 PM CDT for Brooks 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
Jul 15, 2005, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brooks County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 12:00Z on 2005-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2873 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
2873 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-68 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 152256
FFWBRO
TXC047-160100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
556 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* THE STORMS PRODUCING 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.

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.

LAT...LON 2714 9841 2682 9841 2682 9826 2718 9823

$$

MARTIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy29 min
Jul 15, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROBrooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy29 min
Jul 15, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROStarr58 min
Jul 15, 6:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBROStarr2 hr
Jul 15, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBROHidalgo37 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.