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Coastal Flood Statement 20, NWS Brownsville, TX

October 27, 2020Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this coastal flood statement at Oct 27, 2020, 8:40 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 28, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 2020, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 28, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 28, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
19 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 01:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2020-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2020-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 281 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
281 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
428 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 8:43 PM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBRO58 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Texas, 2020Every coastal flood statement in 2020

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.