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Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2007, 5:01 PM CDT for Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 89 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2007, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2007, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 262201 FFWBRO TXC505-262330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 501 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ZAPATA COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. 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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2704 9947 2706 9897 2729 9896 2728 9949 $$ JS
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 262322 FFSBRO FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 622 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2007 TXC505-262332- ZAPATA TX- 622 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN ZAPATA COUNTY... THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED IN THE WARNED AREA EARLIER THIS EVENING HAVE MOVED SOUTH. THUS THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 630 PM. LAT...LON 2704 9947 2706 9897 2729 9896 2728 9949 $$ JS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 92 min |
| Jul 26, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks | 85 min |
| Jul 26, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr | 93 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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.