Special Weather Statement
NWS Brownsville TX ยท US
Details
A Strong Thunderstorm Will Impact West Central Starr County Through 430 PM CDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 411 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Salineno, or 8 miles northwest of Roma, moving west at 20 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Falcon Heights, Falcon State Park, Falcon Dam, Roma High School, and Salineno. This includes US Highway 83 between mile markers 792 and 804.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. If on or near the southern end of Falcon Lake, including by Falcon Dam, get out of the water and move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
Affected areas
- Starr County, TX
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Brownsville TX
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~19s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2V5SVYT6ZQ6Z9GPRSRXFRV3
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.71b86ee58186b8660af1f68df21800a3eebb2b76.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Brownsville TX
- AWIPS ID
- CAPBRO
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.5400
- WMO heading
- XOUS54
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 54
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSBRO |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS84 KBRO 182112 |
| NWSheadline | A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL STARR COUNTY THROUGH 430 PM CDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-18T21:11:00-00:00...storm...095DEG...17KT...26.53,-99.07 |
| maxWindGust | 50 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.25 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Starr County, TX
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 048427 |
| UGC | TXZ252 |
- Polygons
- 26.57,-99.17 26.63,-99.08 26.61,-99.0 26.43,-99.02 26.43,-99.11 26.44,-99.1 26.48,-99.09 26.5,-99.1 26.52,-99.13 26.53,-99.16 26.54,-99.17 26.57,-99.17