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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX

March 3, 20258 counties in Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 3, 2025, 12:55 PM CST for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 4, 2025, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 13 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
Mar 3, 2025, 12:55 PM CST (18:55 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 4, 2025, 8:00 AM CST
Expired
Mar 4, 2025, 9:00 PM CST
In force
13 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 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 2025-03-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 59 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 2025-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 676 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-390 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
91 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
676 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
443 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 3, 11:26 AM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 11:26 AM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 2:14 AM CSTRip Current StatementBROCameron, Kenedy, Willacy49 hr
Mar 3, 2:16 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryBRO37 hr
Mar 3, 2:28 AM CSTFire Weather WatchBROBrooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more10 hr

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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.