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Flood Watch 2, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this flood watch at Jun 14, 2026, 12:52 PM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 15, 2026, 10:09 AM CDT. It was in force for 34 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2026, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 15, 2026, 10:09 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2026, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
- Flood severity
- None
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 nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 393 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
- 778 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jun 14, 12:49 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 12:49 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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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.