Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Watches in 2006
Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 12, 2006, 8:08 AM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2006, 8:08 AM CDT (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2006, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 3127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 12, 7:25 AM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 7:25 AM CDT, 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 12, 5:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 528 AM CDT TUE SEP 12 2006 TXZ248>257-131100- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- 528 AM CDT TUE SEP 12 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TODAY. LIGHTNING AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING SHOULD BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH LIGHTNING AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 6:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 2 hr |
| Sep 12, 1:20 PM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | BRO | 4 hr | |
| Sep 12, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 59 min | |
| Sep 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 90 min | |
| Sep 12, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron | 25 min |
| Sep 12, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron | 36 min |
| Sep 12, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 31 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.