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Coastal Flood Statement 1, NWS Brownsville, TX

January 7, 2015Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this coastal flood statement at Jan 7, 2015, 2:57 PM CST for Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 7, 2015, 8:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 7, 2015, 2:57 PM CST (20:57 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 7, 2015, 8:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 8, 2015, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

County Kenedy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood statement 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 coastal flood statement went out at Jan 7, 11:55 AM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 11:55 AM CST, 3 hours 2 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
Jan 6, 10:04 PM CST	Gale Watch	BRO		6 hr
Jan 6, 10:04 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	BRO		37 hr
Jan 7, 3:59 AM CST	Gale Warning	BRO		26 hr
Jan 7, 4:28 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	23 hr
Jan 7, 1:55 PM CST	Freeze Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg, Zapata	14 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Texas, 2015 Every coastal flood statement in 2015

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.