1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 25, 7:00 PM CST, 6 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 800 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2003 CORRECTED MARINE/AVIATION FORECASTER NUMBER .DISCUSSION...LOCAL SITUATION IS LOOKING MORE LIKE AN INVERTED TROUGH EXTENDING NORTH-NORTHEAST OUT OF MEXICO THAN THE ANTICIPATED COLD FRONT BLASTING THROUGH THE AREA. THE SURFACE FRONT/TROUGH IS STILL EXPECTED TO WORK ITS WAY SOUTHEAST OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA BY 12Z SUNDAY MORNING. THIS TIMING IS ROUGHLY THE SAME AS FORECAST FOR THE PAST THREE DAYS...BUT THE MANNER IN WHICH THE BOUNDARY WILL MOVE THROUGH HAS CHANGED. A MESOSCALE LOW MANIFESTED ITSELF ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WEST OF SAN ANTONIO LATE THIS MORNING AND IS CURRENTLY MOVING EAST TOWARD VICTORIA. THIS WILL BRING NORTHWEST WINDS INTO THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS A LITTLE SOONER THAN ANTICIPATED...WINDS AT LAREDO TURNED TO THE NORTHWEST AT 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...RADAR INFORMATION SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS SOME KIND OF SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDING DOWN OVER THE MIDDLE OF OUR COUNTY WARNING AREA...A REMNANT OF THE SEA BREEZE FRONT OR OUTFLOW BOUNDARY THAT MOVED IN FROM THE COAST THIS AFTERNOON. THEN AGAIN... WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MESO LOW JUST TO THE NORTH...THE BOUNDARY OVER OUR MIDDLE COUNTIES MAY BE WELL-POSITIONED TO SERVE AS A NEWLY ITERATED FRONT. RECENT RADAR IMAGERY INDICATED THAT THE ROPE CLOUD ASSOCIATED WITH THE SURFACE COLD FRONT JUST SOUTH OF SAN ANTONIO WAS DETERIORATING. REGARDLESS OF WHERE THE FRONT ESTABLISHES ITSELF IN THE NEXT 12 HOURS...THE BOUNDARY OVER OUR CENTRAL COUNTIES IS RELATIVELY STATIONARY AND SHOULD SERVE AS A FOCAL POINT FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS OVER CRP COUNTIES HAVE RECENTLY PRODUCED A SOUTHERLY MOVING OUTFLOW BOUNDARY THAT SHOULD HELP FIRE OFF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN COUNTIES TONIGHT. ZONES WILL NEED A LITTLE RETOOLING...ESPECIALLY OUT WEST. 18Z AVN MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS BASICALLY ASSURE RAIN FOR SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. WITH SURFACE WINDS OUT OF THE NORTH- NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR...THE SITUATION WILL TURN TO MORE OF A STRATIFORM EVENT. NOT CONFIDENT ABOUT MODEL CONFIDENCE. && .MARINE...BUOY 020 REPORTED SOUTH SOUTH EAST WINDS AT 16 KNOTS WITH GUSTS TO 18 KNOTS AND SEAS AT 6 FEET 7 SECONDS. A COLD FRONT IS MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH TEXAS THIS EVENING. THE FRONT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE MARINE AREAS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS BY MID MORNING. ONCE THE FRONT PASSES...BREEZY NORTH WINDS WILL FOLLOW IN. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER THE MARINE AREAS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. BEHIND THE FRONT WINDS AND SEAS WILL INCREASE TO SMALL CRAFT CONDITIONS. LIGHT RAIN AND CLOUDY SKIES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT OVER THE BAY FOR SUNDAY AND OVER THE OFFSHORE WATERS FOR SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY. A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM AND RIDGE WILL MOVE INTO TEXAS AND NORTHERN MEXICO BEHIND THE FRONT. THE HIGH PRESSURE AREA WILL DOMINATE THE MARINE AREAS MOST OF NEXT WEEK. AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE AREA WINDS AND SEAS WILL SUBSIDE. .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE BEING REPORTED OVER THE REGIONAL AIRPORTS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. A COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE CWA EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ARE POSSIBLE OVER OR NEAR THE REGIONAL AIRPORTS TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. VISIBILITIES OF 1 OR 2 MILES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND AROUND THUNDERSTORMS. CEILINGS WILL LIKELY DROP TO 1000 FEET TOWARD MORNING. THE NEXT 24 HOURS EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS WITH TEMPORARY MVFR OR IFR CONDITIONS AS THE TRAILING MID LEVEL BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO PROMOTE CLOUDINESS. BREEZY NORTH WINDS WILL PREVAIL AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SCA FOR 150-155-170-175 FOR LATE TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. SCA FOR GMZ130 FOR SUNDAY. && SYNOPTIC/GRIDS...69 MARINE/AVIATION...63 MESO...VEGA THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR INTERNET WEB PAGE AT: HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO
TXZ248>257-261000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 400 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH DEEP SOUTH TEXAS LATE TONIGHT CAUSING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT FOR THE GULF WATERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST INTO EARLY SUNDAY AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE EXPECTED FOR THE LOWER TEXAS COASTAL WATERS AS THE WINDS AND SEAS BUILD IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT SUNDAY. THE WINDS AND SEAS WILL REMAIN HIGH ENOUGH FOR SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES THROUGH MONDAY. AS COOLER AND DRIER AIR FILTERS OVER THE REGION IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT...FAIR WEATHER WILL PREVAIL OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FROM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE TONIGHT. 65
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 27 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains in Cameron county resulted in the flash flooding of the Resaca Calmada over its banks in the Paseo de la Resaca development.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, October 2003
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