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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2006, 7:37 PM CDT for Jim Hogg County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 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 20, 2006, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2006, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- 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), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 210037 FFWBRO TXC247-210130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 737 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HEBBRONVILLE * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 733 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * THE STORM 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...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. LAT...LON 2710 9893 2722 9859 2742 9856 2744 9890 $$ PHILO
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KBRO 210112 FFSBRO FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 808 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 TXC247-210130- JIM HOGG TX- 808 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY... AT 808 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. ALTHOUGH THIS CONVECTION IS QUICKLY DISSIPATING...RAINFALL CONTINUES TO FALL IN THE WARNED AREA AT A RATE OF AROUND 1 INCH AN HOUR. RAINFALL TOTALS IN NORTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY SHOW ESTIMATES OF NEARLY 7 INCHES OF RAIN RECEIVED JUST WEST OF HEBBRONVILLE. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN THE CITY OF HEBBRONVILLE WITH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND MINOR CREEK FLOODING. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL KEEP FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE THROUGH 8:30 PM CDT. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HEBBRONVILLE. LAT...LON 2710 9893 2722 9859 2742 9856 2744 9890 $$ PHILO
000 WGUS74 KBRO 210132 FFSBRO FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 830 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 TXC247-210159- JIM HOGG TX- 830 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL JIM HOGG COUNTY EXPIRED AT 830 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE DECREASED OVER THE WARNED AREA NOW. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT. AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR THIS AREA...AS RESIDUAL RAINS WILL CAUSE ROADWAY PONDING FOR THE NEXT HOUR. DRIVE WITH EXTREME CAUTION IN THE AREA JUST WEST OF HEBBRONVILLE AND IN THE CITY OF HEBBRONVILLE TONIGHT. REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 2710 9893 2722 9859 2742 9856 2744 9890 $$ PHILO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 22 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.