1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 22, 1:00 PM CST, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 200 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2004 .DISCUSSION...VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A MESOSCALE CYCLONIC SWIRL MOVING NORTH INTO STARR AND HIDALGO COUNTIES. IN ADDITION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE SEA BREEZE FRONT IN KENEDY COUNTY. THESE FEATURES ARE SUPPORTED BY AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CENTERED NEAR LAREDO TX THAT IS MOVING SLOWLY WEST. THE CHANCE FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DECREASE TOMORROW AS THE UPPER LOW CONTINUES MOVING WEST AND WEAKENS. DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS...A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL BE THE DOMINANT WEATHER FEATURE FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THE RIDGE WILL GENERALLY INDUCE LIGHT TO MODERATE INTENSITY SOUTHEAST SURFACE WINDS OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. && .MARINE...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE MARINE FORECAST AREA THROUGH FRIDAY AS A LOW PRESSURE DISTURBANCE NEAR THE AREA COMBINES WITH GULF MOISTURE. WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL MODERATE SOMEWHAT OVER THE WEEKEND BEFORE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST EARLY NEXT WEEK AS MID LEVEL TROUGHING DEVELOPS IN THE PLAINS AND THE RIDGE CENTER SHIFTS WEST. THIS WEAKNESS...WHICH WILL INFLUENCE THE WEST GULF...MAY ALLOW SHOWER ACTIVITY TO FLARE UP. SEAS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN LIGHT TO MODERATE DURING THE PERIOD ALONG WITH ONSHORE WINDS. && .AVIATION...A MID LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL REMAIN IN NORTHERN MEXICO TODAY...JUST WEST OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...AND WILL COMBINE WITH SEA BREEZE FORCING TO HELP TRIGGER ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRIMARILY OVER WESTERN SECTION OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. THESE MAY RESULT IN TEMPORARY MVFR CONDITIONS DUE TO HEAVY RAIN. VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OTHERWISE. && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SYNOPTIC/GRIDS...69 MARINE/AVIATION...52 MESO...VEGA THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR INTERNET WEB PAGE AT: HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 530 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2004 TXZ248>257-231100- BROOKS-COASTAL CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-HIDALGO-INLAND CAMERON- INLAND WILLACY-JIM HOGG-KENEDY-STARR-ZAPATA- 530 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...ENDING BY MIDNIGHT. SOME FLOODED ROADWAYS MAY BE ENCOUNTERED IN NORTHERN ZAPATA AND JIM HOGG THROUGH MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES OF 105 AND ABOVE COMMON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 204 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:06 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Zapata county Sheriff reported hail the size of pennies on U.S. Highway 83 just south of the Webb-Zapata county line.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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