Showers moved across portions of Deep South Texas the last week of September improving the drought situation across most of the County Warning Area.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS BRO wrote it up.
Showers moved across portions of Deep South Texas the last week of September improving the drought situation across most of the County Warning Area.
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 Sep 28, 7:30 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 830 PM CDT MON SEP 28 2009 .DISCUSSION...VERY ISOLATED CLUSTER OF SHOWERS DEVELOPED LATE THIS EVENING BETWEEN SARITA AND FALFURRIAS ALONG WEAK SEABREEZE FRONT... WHICH WAS DUE IN PART TO A MODERATE SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST SURFACE FLOW. VERY INTERESTING ECHOES ON RADAR MOVING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON...WELL AHEAD OF SEABREEZE FRONT...AND IN PERFECTLY CLEAR SKIES. QUITE POSSIBLE THESE REFLECTIVITY SIGNATURES WERE THE RESULT OF CHAFF RELEASED BY MILITARY AIRCRAFT CONDUCTING TRAINING EXERCISES BETWEEN HERE AND KINGSVILLE. RIGHT NOW...WEAK COLD FRONT LOCATED ROUGHLY FROM DRT TO HDO TO PSX...WITH NEARLY STATIONARY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING BEHIND THE FRONT. HAVE OPTED TO REMOVE PRECIPITATION FROM ZONE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT...WITH DECENT CHANCE OF RAIN ON TAP FOR TOMORROW AS THE COLD FRONT STALLS NORTH OF HERE. && .MARINE...AT 6 PM BUOY 20 REPORTED SOUTHEAST WINDS AT 8 KNOTS AND SEAS AT 2.6 FEET WITH A 5 SECOND PERIOD. EXPECT LIGHT SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS AND LOW SEAS ACROSS THE MARINE AREAS THROUGH THE MIDWEEK. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH TEXAS ON TUESDAY WITH ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT MOVING OUR WAY THIS WEEKEND. ALTHOUGH THESE COLD FRONTS WILL APPROACH THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THEY BOTH SHOULD STALL OVER THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. THE PROXIMITY OF THE BOUNDARIES WILL INCREASE THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE MARINE AREAS TUESDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE WINDS AND SEAS WILL INCREASE THURSDAY BUT ARE FORECAST TO REMAIN BELOW SMALL CRAFT CRITERIA. WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE HIGHER IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND LIGHT TO MODERATE SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS ARE OCCURRING AT THE REGIONAL AIRPORTS. CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES LIGHT AND VARIABLE TO LIGHT SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE CWA THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH WILL EDGE INTO OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON BRINGING A CHC FOR MVFR CONDITIONS IN -SHRA/-TSRA DURING THE AFTERNOON. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BAYVIEW/PORT ISABEL 78 90 77 91 / 0 30 20 20 BROWNSVILLE 77 92 76 91 / 0 30 20 20 HARLINGEN 75 92 75 93 / 0 30 20 20 MCALLEN 77 93 76 94 / 0 30 20 20 RIO GRANDE CITY 76 93 76 95 / 0 30 20 20 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND 80 89 78 89 / 0 30 20 20 && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BROWNSVILLE SYNOPTIC/GRIDS...TOMASELLI-66 MARINE/AVIATION/MESO...PHILO-58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 947 AM CDT MON SEP 28 2009 GMZ130-132-135-150-155-170-175-TXZ248>257-291100- LAGUNA MADRE FROM THE PORT OF BROWNSVILLE TO THE ARROYO COLORADO- LAGUNA MADRE FROM THE ARROYO COLORADO TO 5 NM NORTH OF PORT MANSFIELD TX- LAGUNA MADRE FROM 5 NM NORTH OF PORT MANSFIELD TO BAFFIN BAY TX- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT MANSFIELD TO THE RIO GRANDE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT MANSFIELD OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PORT MANSFIELD TO THE RIO GRANDE EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT MANSFIELD EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM-ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- 947 AM CDT MON SEP 28 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE LAGUNA MADRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AT TIMES THROUGH THIS WEEKEND AS A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES INTO SOUTH TEXAS TUESDAY AND ANOTHER FRONT MOVES INTO SOUTH TEXAS THIS WEEKEND. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS LOW AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Beneficial rains moving across portions of Jim Hogg County improved the drought conditions at the end of the month. Severe (D2) drought conditions prevailed across the northern half of the county at the end of September.
Beneficial rains moving across portions of Brooks County improved the drought conditions at the end of the month. Severe (D2) drought conditions prevailed across the northern three quarters of the county at the end of September.
Beneficial rains moving across portions of Kenedy County improved the drought conditions at the end of the month. Extreme (D3) drought conditions prevailed across the northern one quarter of the county and Severe (D2) drought conditions prevailed across the central one quarter of the county at the end of September.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, September 2009
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 195069, 195071, 195072.