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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX

July 7, 2010Starr County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this river flood warning at Jul 7, 2010, 10:24 PM CDT for Starr County, Texas. It took effect at Jul 8, 2010, 9:30 PM CDT. It was in force for 33 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 2010, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 8, 2010, 9:30 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 10, 2010, 11:07 AM CDT
In force: 33 days
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

County Starr County, TX

The radar

The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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 river

Written for the forecast point Rio Grande at Rio Grande City (RGDT2).

Action stage: 48 ft
Minor stage: 50 ft
Moderate stage: 51 ft
Major stage: 53 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Jul 7, 9:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 9:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 12:37 AM CDT	Inland Tropical Storm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	15 hr
Jul 8, 12:37 AM CDT	Tropical Storm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	13 hr
Jul 8, 12:37 AM CDT	Tropical Storm Warning	BRO		15 hr
Jul 8, 6:50 AM CDT	Hurricane Local Statement	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	9 hr
Jul 8, 11:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	90 min
Jul 8, 11:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron	18 min
Jul 8, 2:07 PM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	BRO	Kenedy	23 hr
Jul 8, 2:07 PM CDT	High Surf Advisory	BRO	Kenedy	23 hr
Jul 8, 4:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	95 min
Jul 8, 5:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Jim Hogg	96 min
Jul 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	88 min
Jul 8, 6:48 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	BRO		18 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.