INFORMATION
ADV LAT LON DATE/TIME WIND PR STATUS 1 20.10 -93.70 08/18/21Z 30 1010 TROPICAL DEPRESSION #3 formed 2 19.60 -94.30 08/19/03Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 3 19.90 -93.80 08/19/09Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 4 19.60 -93.60 08/19/15Z 30 1008 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 5 19.90 -94.70 08/19/21Z 35 1006 TROPICAL STORM BRET..reclassified 5A 19.90 -94.70 08/20/00Z 35 1000 TROPICAL STORM 6 19.80 -94.70 08/20/03Z 40 1000 TROPICAL STORM 6A 19.90 -94.60 08/20/06Z 45 999 TROPICAL STORM 7 19.90 -94.60 08/20/09Z 45 999 TROPICAL STORM 7A 20.40 -94.80 08/20/12Z 45 999 TROPICAL STORM 8 20.90 -94.60 08/20/15Z 55 993 TROPICAL STORM 8A 21.10 -94.50 08/20/18Z 55 992 TROPICAL STORM 9 21.30 -94.40 08/20/21Z 55 992 TROPICAL STORM 9A 21.90 -94.30 08/20/21Z 55 983 TROPICAL STORM 10 22.30 -94.50 08/21/03Z 65 981 HURRICANE BRET...reclassified 10A 22.50 -94.60 08/21/06Z 80 980 HURRICANE 11 22.70 -94.70 08/21/09Z 80 980 HURRICANE 11A 23.00 -94.90 08/21/12Z 80 980 HURRICANE 12 23.40 -94.90 08/21/15Z 80 978 HURRICANE 12A 23.80 -95.00 08/21/18Z 80 976 HURRICANE 13 24.10 -95.10 08/21/21Z 90 976 HURRICANE 13A 24.50 -95.10 08/21/23Z 105 963 HURRICANE 13B 24.80 -95.10 08/22/01Z 115 955 HURRICANE 14 25.20 -95.10 08/22/03Z 115 953 HURRICANE 14A 25.40 -95.30 08/22/05Z 115 952 HURRICANE 14B 25.70 -95.50 08/22/07Z 115 952 HURRICANE 15 26.00 -95.70 08/22/09Z 120 948 HURRICANE 15A 26.20 -96.00 08/22/11Z 120 948 HURRICANE 15B 26.30 -96.20 08/22/13Z 120 945 HURRICANE 16 25.50 -96.50 08/22/15Z 120 944 HURRICANE 16A 26.50 -96.60 08/22/17Z MMM MMM HURRICANE...adv 16A not rec'd 16B 26.60 -96.90 08/22/19Z 120 945 HURRICANE 17 26.70 -97.10 08/22/21Z 120 946 HURRICANE 17A 26.80 -97.30 08/22/23Z 110 949 HURRICANE 17B 26.90 -97.50 08/23/01Z 105 953 HURRICANE...inland 18 26.90 -97.60 08/23/03Z 100 955 HURRICANE 18A 27.00 -97.80 08/23/05Z 90 960 HURRICANE 18B 27.00 -98.00 08/23/07Z 80 965 HURRICANE 19 27.10 -98.20 08/23/09Z 70 970 HURRICANE 19A 27.20 -98.30 08/23/11Z 65 975 HURRICANE 19B 27.30 -98.30 08/23/13Z 60 980 TROPICAL STORM...reclassified 20 27.40 -98.60 08/23/15Z 40 985 TROPICAL STORM 20A 27.60 -98.80 08/23/18Z 40 993 TROPICAL STORM 21 27.80 -99.10 08/23/21Z 35 996 TROPICAL STORM...last by NHC 22$ ..... ...... 08/23/23Z .. 1000 TROPICAL STORM...first by HPC (lousy) 23* 28.30 -99.80 08/24/05Z .. 1006 TROPICAL DEPRESSION BRET (HPC still) 24& 28.00 -100.60 08/24/11Z .. .... TROPICAL DEPRESSION 25$ 27.90 -102.00 08/24/17Z .. 1006 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 26$ 27.60 -102.90 08/24/23Z .. 1008 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 27 08/25/05Z WIND is in knots PR is pressure in millibars (mb) or hectopascals (hPa) Notes: $ Advisories beginning with #22 are issued by HPC not NHC; we are culling plotting information from these advisories, which apparently are not yet a standardized product. Intensity and position information is missing from several of these advisories. * Advisory number #23 provided by guesswork & No estimate of minimum central pressure or maximum wind provided with this advisory by HPC
SUMMARY
Hurricane Bret, the first major hurricane of the Atlantic season, formed in the Bay
of Campeche (the southern Gulf of Mexico) and moved slowly northward along the Mexican
Coast. It rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale
and threatened portions of northen Mexico and south Texas. Landfall was made in a remote
area between Brownsville and Corpus Christi, Texas.
*********************************************** 08-19-99 ********************************
no data available...
*********************************************** 08-20-99 ********************************
no data available...
*********************************************** 08-21-99 ********************************
no data available...
*********************************************** 08-22-99 ********************************
no data available...
*********************************************** 08-23-99 ********************************
no data available...
*********************************************** 08-24-99 ********************************
SCCNS3
STORM SUMMARY NUMBER 25 FOR T.D. "BRET"
NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION
HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER...NWS...CAMP SPRINGS MD
1200 PM CDT TUE AUG 24 1999
AT 1145 AM CDT... THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION BRET WAS LOCATED
NEAR 27.9N 102.0W...OR IN NORTHERN MEXICO ABOUT 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DEL RIO TX. THE STORM CONTINUES TO WEAKEN WITH ITS CENTRAL PRESSURE
UP TO 1006 MB...AND MAXIMUM WINDS OF 20 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED AT
OBSERVATION SITES ALONG THE RIO GRANDE.
THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE CURRENTLY FALLING WEST OF COTULLA...BETWEEN
DEL RIO AND LAREDO. SATELLITE ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL DURING THE LAST
THREE HOURS INDICATE THAT AROUND 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE AREA
NEAR COTULLA...WITH UP TO 4.5 INCHES IN MEXICO JUST WEST OF LAREDO.
TWO DAY DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT UP TO 25 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS KENEDY COUNTY TX...WITH 10 INCH AMOUNTS
COMMON IN THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES.
FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR ZAVALA AND DIMMIT COUNTIES
UNTIL 200 PM CDT. FLASH FLOOD WATCHES CONTINUE FOR TODAY FOR MOST OF
THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF TEXAS...INCLUDING THE SAN ANTONIO AREA.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST TODAY ALONG THE RIO GRANDE
VALLEY FROM LAREDO TO DEL RIO WESTWARD WELL INTO MEXICO...WHERE
AMOUNTS MAY EXCEED 5 INCHES. AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO
REDEVELOP FARTHER EAST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTH TEXAS THIS
AFTERNOON WHERE SEVERAL NEW INCHES MAY FALL OVER PLACES THAT
HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.
THE NEXT STORM SUMMARY WILL BE ISSUED AT 600 PM CDT.
HEDGE/WALLY/FORECAST OPERATIONS BRANCH
*********************************************** 08-25-99 ********************************
no data available...
© 1999 FIU High Performance Database Research Center