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Coastal Flood Statement 4, NWS Brownsville, TX

May 26, 2020Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this coastal flood statement at May 26, 2020, 8:45 AM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2020, 8:45 AM CDT (13:45 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2020, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 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 13:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 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: 114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.2

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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 May 26, 6:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 4:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 7:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 7:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 7:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 7:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 7:49 AM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 8:05 AM CDT, 40 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
May 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	45 min
May 25, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	49 min
May 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	50 min
May 25, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	46 min
May 25, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	48 min
May 25, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Zapata	42 min
May 25, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	25 min
May 25, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Zapata	46 min
May 26, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Zapata	40 min
May 26, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	38 min
May 26, 1:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	43 min
May 26, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	63 min
May 26, 1:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Starr	31 min
May 26, 2:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	60 min
May 26, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	65 min
May 26, 2:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	50 min
May 26, 2:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Starr	2 hr
May 26, 2:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	56 min
May 26, 2:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	3 hr
May 26, 3:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Starr	5 hr
May 26, 3:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Starr	50 min
May 26, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	61 min
May 26, 3:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	115 min
May 26, 5:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	57 min
May 26, 5:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	48 min
May 26, 7:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Zapata	41 min
May 26, 8:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Zapata	55 min
May 26, 8:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Zapata	3 hr
May 26, 8:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Jim Hogg	67 min
May 26, 9:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Brooks	63 min
May 26, 9:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	66 min
May 26, 10:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	54 min
May 26, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		88 min
May 26, 11:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	61 min
May 26, 11:59 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		72 min
May 26, 12:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Willacy	53 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.