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Special Weather Statement, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 13, 2015, 5:05 PM CDT for Zapata County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2015, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2015, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
County Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 883 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Oct 13, 2:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 2:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 228 PM CDT TUE OCT 13 2015 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT/...A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS ADVANCING SLOWLY SOUTH THROUGH THE CRP CWA THIS AFTERNOON...AND SHOULD PUSH INTO THE BRO CWA THIS EVENING... BEFORE HOLDING UP FOR THE NIGHT. VERY LIGHT WINDS TONIGHT WILL CALL FOR A ROUND OF LIGHT TO MODERATE FOG ACROSS THE AREA...WHICH WILL HANG ON THROUGH BURN OFF MID WEDNESDAY MORNING...AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL NOT BE GOING ANYWHERE BEFORE LATER IN THE DAY WEDNESDAY. WILL SEE SCT TO BKN LOW CLOUDS THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING AS WELL. NOT GOING FOR DENSE FOG TONIGHT RIGHT NOW...BUT THAT SITUATION CAN BE REEVALUATED ON AN AD HOC BASIS. DEW POINT TEMPS WILL BE A FEW DEGREES LOWER BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT...ENOUGH TO PROBABLY STAVE OFF ANOTHER BOUT OF FOG. OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPS WILL FOLLOW THE DEW POINTS DOWN WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WITH MID TO UPPER 60S COMMONPLACE...AS OPPOSED TO 70S TONIGHT. HIGH TEMPS ON WEDNESDAY WILL EXHIBIT LITTLE CHANGE FROM TODAY...AS THERE IS NOT MUCH ACTUAL COLD AIR BEHIND THIS FRONT...JUST DRIER AIR. HIGH TEMPS WEDNESDAY WILL CONTINUE TO BE SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. CAN NOT RULE OUT A STRAY STRAGGLER TYPE SHOWER WEDNESDAY...BUT THOSE SHOULD BE QUITE ISOLATED. .LONG TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...DRY PATTERN RETURNS FOR THE LONG TERM PRD ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. AN AMPLIFIED RIDGE DOMINATES THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE CONUS WHILE SHORTWAVE TROUGH DIGS SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PLAINS THURSDAY. THIS RIDGE WILL REMAIN IN CONTROL OF THE WEATHER PATTERN FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WITH SURFACE HIGH STRENGTHENING AS WELL ACROSS THE SE PLAINS. THIS SURFACE FEATURE WILL ACT AS A BLOCK KEEPING THE DEEPER MOISTURE FURTHER SOUTH OF THE CWA INTO MX. EASTERLY WIND WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK WHICH MUCH DRIER AIR ACROSS THE AREA. THE HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR 90S ACROSS THROUGH THE PRD WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES. A SLIGHT INCREASE IN SHOWER ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE LATE SUN INTO MONDAY AS UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE ENTERS THE PAC NW. THIS WILL STRENGTHEN THE LEE TROUGH EAST OF THE ROCKIES AND RESULT IN STRENGTHENING THE LOW LEVEL JET ACROSS WEST TEXAS PULLING DEEPER MOISTURE NORTHWARD. THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR RAIN WILL STILL REMAIN SOUTH AND WEST OF THE CWA SAT BUT SUN INTO MONDAY THE CHANCES BEGIN TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA. && .MARINE...NOW THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...LIGHT WINDS AND LOW SEAS THROUGH 36 HOURS WITH A FLAT PRESSURE FIELD OVER THE WEST GULF. A FEW SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY ALONG A SLOW MOVING FRONT PUSHING SOUTH OVER THE WATERS. THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY...BROAD SURFACE HIGH ACROSS THE SE PLAINS WILL CONTROL THE WEATHER PATTERN FOR MUCH OF THE LONG TERM FORECAST. A LONG EASTERLY FETCH WILL BUILD SEAS AS A RESULT ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF EXTENDING SOUTH INTO THE LOWER TEXAS GULF COAST. SEAS COULD BUILD UP TO 6 TO 7 FEET BY SUNDAY AND CLOSER TO 8 FEET BY MONDAY. SCA WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO BUILDING SEAS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BAYVIEW/PORT ISABEL 72 87 71 89 / 10 10 10 10 BROWNSVILLE 73 89 70 89 / 20 10 10 10 HARLINGEN 73 91 69 92 / 10 10 10 10 MCALLEN 73 92 70 92 / 10 10 0 10 RIO GRANDE CITY 73 94 69 93 / 20 0 0 10 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND 78 84 77 87 / 20 20 10 10 && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT: HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RGV 54/67
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 4:20 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 44 min |
| Oct 13, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 70 min |
| Oct 13, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 79 min |
| Oct 13, 3:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 57 min |
| Oct 13, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 51 min |
| Oct 13, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 49 min |
| Oct 13, 3:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Hidalgo, Starr | 91 min |
| Oct 13, 4:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Jim Hogg | 56 min |
| Oct 13, 4:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Jim Hogg | 85 min |
| Oct 13, 4:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 42 min |
| Oct 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Brooks | 52 min |
| Oct 13, 5:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks | 93 min |
| Oct 13, 5:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Jim Hogg | 85 min |
| Oct 13, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 5:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Zapata | 87 min |
| Oct 13, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Brooks | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Brooks | 90 min |
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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.