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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flash flood watch at May 13, 2014, 4:21 AM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2014, 4:21 AM CDT (09:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2014, 11:36 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 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 09:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 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
- 2932 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
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 May 13, 3:51 AM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 3:51 AM CDT, 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 12, 11:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1102 PM CDT MON MAY 12 2014 TXZ248-249-130445- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG- 1102 PM CDT MON MAY 12 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHERN JIM HOGG COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. CENTRAL ZAPATA COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. UNTIL 1145 PM CDT... AT 1102 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...FROM 21 MILES WEST OF AGUA NUEVA TO 42 MILES WEST OF AGUA NUEVA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL. STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SIESTA SHORES. GUERRA. AGUA NUEVA. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL MEDIA...OR WEATHER.GOV FOR UPDATES. THUNDERSTORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL MEDIA...OR WEATHER.GOV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. && JGG
Special weather statement, May 13, 12:23 AM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:37 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 7 hr | |
| May 12, 8:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 62 min |
| May 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Starr | 45 min |
| May 12, 10:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Starr | 2 hr |
| May 12, 11:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 113 min |
| May 12, 11:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 101 min |
| May 13, 12:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 117 min |
| May 13, 5:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 2 hr |
| May 13, 6:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr | 2 hr |
| May 13, 7:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy | 95 min |
| May 13, 8:54 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 96 min | |
| May 13, 9:40 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 34 hr | |
| May 13, 9:40 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 30 hr | |
| May 13, 10:29 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 61 min | |
| May 13, 11:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron | 59 min |
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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.