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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2007, 12:15 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 3, 2007, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2007, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KBRO 031717
FFWBRO
TXC261-489-031815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1215 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
KENEDY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SARITA...
WESTERN WILLACY COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF RAYMONDVILLE...
* UNTIL 115 PM CDT
* AT 1211 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. MUCH OF THIS RAIN WILL FALL ON
ALREADY SATURATED GROUND IN KENEDY COUNTY. ONE TO THREE INCHES OF
RAIN ARE POSSIBLE IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BORDER
PATROL...SARITA AND RAYMONDVILLE.
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 2646 9799 2645 9786 2635 9786 2634 9773
2659 9773 2662 9726 2736 9731 2729 9797
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KBRO 031748
FFSBRO
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1246 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007
TXC261-489-031815-
WILLACY TX-KENEDY TX-
1246 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR
KENEDY AND WESTERN WILLACY COUNTIES...
AT 1240 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH
FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE CURRENTLY
LOCATED OVER NORTHERN AND EASTERN KENEDY COUNTIES AND ARE PRODUCING
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SARITA AND
BORDER PATROL
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 2646 9799 2645 9786 2635 9786 2634 9773
2659 9773 2662 9726 2736 9731 2729 9797
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 23 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Starr | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 8:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 11:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 38 min | |
| Jul 3, 12:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 46 min | |
| Jul 3, 12:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 48 min | |
| Jul 3, 1:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 48 min | |
| Jul 3, 1:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 1:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Willacy | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 1:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 46 min | |
| Jul 3, 2:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 3:16 PM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | BRO | 6 hr | |
| Jul 3, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 52 min | |
| Jul 3, 3:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 67 min | |
| Jul 3, 4:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Cameron | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 67 min | |
| Jul 3, 5:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Hidalgo | 63 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.