A dry month overall was sufficient to allow Severe (D2) Drought to extend farther east in the South Texas Brush Country by the 29th. The extension clipped the far northwest corner of Brooks County, with conditions continuing into early May.
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The episode as NWS BRO wrote it up.
A dry month overall was sufficient to allow Severe (D2) Drought to extend farther east in the South Texas Brush Country by the 29th. The extension clipped the far northwest corner of Brooks County, with conditions continuing into early May.
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 Apr 28, 11:47 PM CST, 13 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 1247 AM CDT Tue Apr 29 2025 ...New AVIATION... .SHORT TERM... (Tonight through Tuesday night) Issued at 210 PM CDT Mon Apr 28 2025 An upper level trough is expect to eject over the Great Plains tonight into tomorrow, resulting in a tighter pressure gradient over Deep South Texas and a robust low-level jet at 850 mb. This will result in higher southeasterly wind speeds and gusty conditions tonight through tomorrow night. Partly cloudy skies this evening are expected to give way to mostly cloudy conditions tonight and will continue through tomorrow and tomorrow night as well. Temperatures are expected to be around seasonal, with high temperatures expected to reach the upper 80s/lower 90s tomorrow. Low temperatures tonight and tomorrow night should get down into the lower to mid 70s. No precipitation is expected. && .LONG TERM... (Wednesday through next Monday) Issued at 210 PM CDT Mon Apr 28 2025 Deep South Texas and the RGV will slowly transition into a more unsettled pattern as the work week unfolds. The unsettled pattern will arise as large scale ridging that had been controlling the weather and keeping conditions on the seasonal side shifts east. The eastward shift will allow a more progressive wave pattern to develop, whereby short wave troughs move east from the Western United States into the Plains. The waves will stay mostly north of the local area, precluding most concerns for severe weather, but some associated energy may transit farther south, over the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains, and that is always a concern in terms of showers and thunderstorms developing in that region, to our west. To complicate matters, a cold front will move south in the Friday to Saturday time frame. The GFS shows convection firing up over the RG Plains and propagating south toward the Brush Country and Upper RGV Friday night into Saturday. Confidence is lower for that activity to continue into the Lower Valley on Saturday, but it will be something to keep an eye on. Let’s reset to Wednesday. One short wave trough will be upstream, and the interaction of Gulf of America high pressure with the associated upstream lower surface pressure will energize the South Texas wind machine, at least for the Lower Valley, Wednesday afternoon. Winds will be breezy to windy, but I am not convinced that we will reach wind advisory criteria. Marine interests will feel the wind (see below) as well. While on the topic of marine interests, we expect a moderate rip current risk from mid week into the weekend because wave heights will be elevated. The rip current threat will tend to be more of the longshore variety due to persistent southeast (alongshore winds). This type of rip can be dangerous since it can move swimmers parallel to the beach making it difficult to return to shore. We may see the first of the front range convection fire up Wednesday night, and Wednesday is now in a general thunderstorm outlook from SPC. Most of this initial convection should stay on the Mexican side of the border. I expect general thunderstorm potential each night through Saturday night. Thursday night activity may be a little more robust than that of Wednesday, and the forecast shows a 20 to 30% chance (isolated to scattered) of convection for the mid and upper Valley. Friday night will get a little more interesting. Although modest ridging will be temporarily in place over Texas (remember that progressive pattern mentioned earlier?), a weak east-west oriented front will move south into South Texas and provide a focus along the still primed RG Plains. We can’t rule out some of that making it into the Brush Country or Mid and Upper RG Valley. Our best rain chances (40 to 50%) will materialize heading into Saturday afternoon, with daily QPF values in the tenths of inches, possibly higher (up to an inch) in any heavier showers. The front will push back north by Sunday, but instability will remain Saturday night as well as Sunday night along the front range. Temperatures won’t exhibit any large swings during he long term, remaining a few to several degrees above normal. Temperatures may even out closer to normal over the weekend with increased cloud cover and rain chances. && .AVIATION... (06Z TAFS) Issued at 1238 AM CDT Tue Apr 29 2025 MVFR ceilings and moderate to gusty southeast winds prevail across Deep South Texas early this morning. Winds are expected to slightly diminish overnight. VFR conditions will return later this morning as southeast winds increase and become breezy in the afternoon. Some gusts around 30 kts will be possible in the afternoon. There is a low (10 percent) chance of visibility reduction, 3SM or less, due to mist at HRL around sunrise. MVFR ceiling return late this evening. && .MARINE... Issued at 210 PM CDT Mon Apr 28 2025 Tonight through Tomorrow Night...Small Craft Exercise Caution conditions are currently being observed in the Bay and the Gulf waters, and is expected to continue through tomorrow night. Winds are expected to remain out of the southeast, and are expected to be moderate to breezy due to a tightened pressure gradient. Wednesday through Saturday night…We expect enhanced winds and elevated seas on Wednesday with a tighter pressure gradient. Small craft should exercise caution to low end small craft advisory conditions will be possible. From Thursday through Saturday night winds and seas will be slightly lower, in the moderate range. The weather pattern will be slightly more active Thursday night through Saturday night, however, with isolated to scattered (10 to 30% chance) of showers and/or thunderstorms popping up over the marine areas. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BROWNSVILLE 76 87 76 88 / 0 0 10 10 HARLINGEN 73 90 73 91 / 0 0 10 10 MCALLEN 76 92 76 93 / 0 10 10 20 RIO GRANDE CITY 74 94 74 93 / 10 10 10 20 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND 75 81 76 81 / 0 0 0 10 BAYVIEW/PORT ISABEL 74 86 74 86 / 0 0 10 10 && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...None. GM...None. && SHORT TERM...55-MM LONG TERM....54-BHM AVIATION...63-KC
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Dry weather through April was sufficient to extend Severe (D2) Drought farther east in the South Texas Brush Country, clipping the northwest corner of Brooks County by the 29th.
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