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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 3, 2016, 2:22 PM CST for 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2016, 2:22 PM CST (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
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 20:20 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, 8.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
725 WWUS84 KBRO 032022 RFWBRO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 222 PM CST WED FEB 3 2016 ...INCREASED THREAT OF RAPID WILDFIRE SPREAD THIS AFTERNOON... .THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY NORTH WINDS...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FALLING INTO THE TEENS...AND RAPIDLY DRYING GRASSLAND AND BRUSH WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR RAPID GROWTH OF WILDFIRES THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. TXZ248>255-040000- /O.NEW.KBRO.FW.W.0004.160203T2022Z-160204T0000Z/ ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON- 222 PM CST WED FEB 3 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE COMBINATION OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AT OR BELOW 15 PERCENT...GUSTY NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH...AND DRYING VEGETATION... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 248...249...250...251... 252...253...254 AND 255. * WIND...NORTH WINDS FROM 15 TO 25 MPH. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL FALL TO NEAR 15 PERCENT OR LOWER THROUGH 6 PM. * HIGHEST THREAT...IS LOCATED FROM INTERSTATE 69 EAST EXTENDING WEST TO ZAPATA COUNTY. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. IN GENERAL...THESE CONDITIONS INCLUDE SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 25 MPH OR GREATER...HUMIDITY RANGING FROM BELOW 25 PERCENT IN ZAPATA COUNTY TO BELOW 45 PERCENT ALONG THE COAST...EACH LASTING FOR 2 HOURS OR MORE... AND CURED FUELS. HUMIDITY BELOW 25 PERCENT IN MOST AREAS WILL TRIGGER FIRE DANGER AT LOWER WIND SPEEDS. DETAILED DECISION TABLES ARE FOUND AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RGV/?N=MAPCOLORS#FIRE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
234 WWUS84 KBRO 040010 RFWBRO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 610 PM CST WED FEB 3 2016 ...RED FLAG CONDITIONS END... .WINDS HAVE DECREASED ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. TXZ248>255-040115- /O.EXP.KBRO.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160204T0000Z/ ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON- 610 PM CST WED FEB 3 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR THE COMBINATION OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AT OR BELOW 15 PERCENT...GUSTY NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH...AND DRYING VEGETATION... WINDS HAVE DECREASED THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS MAY BE SLIGHTLY BETTER ON THURSDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE SPREADS OVER THE AREA AND WINDS WEAKEN SLIGHTLY. NONETHELESS...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL REMAIN DEPRESSED WITH VEGETATION CONTINUING TO DRY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 9:34 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 48 hr | |
| Feb 3, 4:01 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 12 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.