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Coastal Flood Statement 3, NWS Brownsville, TX

April 20, 2022Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this coastal flood statement at Apr 20, 2022, 10:13 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 20, 2022, 10:13 AM CDT (15:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 2022, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX

Counties Cameron County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 12:00Z on 2022-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 985 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2022-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Apr 19, 6:32 PM CDT, 15 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 6:32 PM CDT, 15 hours 41 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 4:16 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBRO15 hr
Apr 20, 6:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROStarr28 min
Apr 20, 6:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBROBrooks33 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.