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Coastal Flood Statement 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this coastal flood statement at May 1, 2026, 10:47 PM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at May 2, 2026, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2026, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 2, 2026, 3:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 2, 2026, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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, 3.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
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.