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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 12, 2007, 10:57 PM CDT for Cameron County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
- Mar 12, 2007, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2007, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBRO 130358 FFWBRO TXC061-130500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1057 PM CDT MON MAR 12 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SAN BENITO...LA FERIA...HARLINGEN... * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1054 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAN BENITO...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SANTA ROSA...COMBES AND RIO HONDO BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 2597 9787 2595 9762 2629 9746 2631 9786 $$ BC
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KBRO 130436 FFSBRO FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1136 PM CDT MON MAR 12 2007 TXC061-130500- CAMERON TX- 1136 PM CDT MON MAR 12 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR WESTERN CAMERON COUNTY... AT 1131 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARLINGEN...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RIO HONDO MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 2597 9787 2595 9762 2629 9746 2631 9786 $$ BC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 87 min |
| Mar 13, 1:24 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 31 min | |
| Mar 13, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 14 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 38 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.