Severe Storms, Flooding Strike Deep South Texas and RGV on May 27th and 28th 2014

Uprooted tree in Bayview. Winds at nearby Cameron County Airport were clocked at 67 mph when the storm arrived there at 410 PM on May 28th.	Standing water one to two feet deep in La Joya, taken at 430 PM on May 28th. Rainfall had ended a little after 4 PM.
2014 RGV Severe Weather "Season" Ends With a Local Bang Microbursts Strike Falfurrias May 27th; Cameron County May 28th
May 27th: Falfurrias A single supercell thunderstorm developed in south central Texas during the late afternoon of May 27th, and initially produced two damaging tornadoes, first in Alice and later in Premont, Texas (Jim Wells County), before continuing into northern Brooks County around sunset before dissipating near Encino. Several reports of wind damage, including numerous fallen trees and limbs, business sign damage, and golf ball sized hail were received from Falfurrias. Intense rainfall which may have exceeded two inches in an hour or less caused flooding or poor drainage areas, with one report of up to 3 feet of water, some which may have come close to entering property. There remains a question as to whether a merging cell (see radar loops, below) in rural Brooks County west of Falfurrias produced a tornado. As of this writing, additional data are needed to make a final determination. Preliminary details are shown below. Loop of 0.5° base reflectivity as seen from NWS Corpus Christi radar as severe thunderstorm and a possible tornado raced through northern Brooks County around 8 PM, May 27th 2014. Loop of 0.5° base velocity as seen from NWS Corpus Christi radar as severe thunderstorm and a possible tornado raced through northern Brooks County around 8 PM, May 27th 2014. The widening mesocyclone suggests straight line winds may have dominated near Falfurrias, but a secondary tighter circulation to the northwest may have produced a tornado.	Loop of 0.5° base velocity as a severe thunderstorm in a line echo wave pattern sliced across eastern and southern Cameron County during the late afternoon of May 28th, 2014. May 28th: Action Moves to RGV Northerly flow on the backside of the slowly departing upper level disturbance, which had edged into southeast Texas by daybreak on May 28th, combined with the last vestige of hot, humid, unstable air along the Rio Grande to promote several areas of strong to severe thunderstorms which created scattered reports of wind damage, large hail, nuisance flooding rainfall, and a few impressive cloud–to–ground light shows and the associated power outages that came with them. More than an hour of heavy rainfall produced urban flooding in La Joya between 330 and 4 PM, with high water continuing through 430 PM. An unconfirmed report of more than 3 inches was received from this location. The big storm cell surged from northeast Cameron County through Bayview, then on into Brownsville between 4 and 445 PM. Additional cells formed on outflows and continued the heavy rains west of Harlingen through around 6 PM, with between 3.25 and 4.70 inches having fallen – nearly double the May average. Urban flooding, intense, frequent cloud to ground lightning, and pockets of wind damage to tree limbs and power lines was common. The last surge of intense storms occurred just before sunset, as remnant boundaries fired in a small area of southern Starr County, around and just north of Rio Grande City. An intense but brief updraft surged into the storm and resulted in reports of quarter sized hail or larger, some shown in this video (views best with Quicktime) taken just northeast of Rio Grande City. Estimated rainfall of more than 4 inches in the same area created field flooding; Rio Grande City officially had 2.6 inches of rain, nearly doubling their May average in a little less than an hour. 3–D view of hail and heavy rain core during peak of the Rio Grande City thunderstorm, at 730 PM May 28th. Note the height of the pink area (65 dBZ), above the freezing layer (estimated at around 14.5 thousand feet) with 50+ dBZ well above 20 thousand feet.
Photo taken from along State Highway 48, near the Port of Brownsville Shrimp Basin, looking northeast. Rotation was hard to determine; if there was a funnel, it lasted less than a minute and was soon overwhelmed by the downdraft.	Cloud to ground lightning strike, one of hundreds that crashed from the storm, looking north from Brownsville.
000 NWUS54 KBRO 290151 LSRBRO PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 851 PM CDT WED MAY 28 2014 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0752 PM TSTM WND DMG FALFURRIAS 27.22N 98.14W 05/27/2014 BROOKS TX EMERGENCY MNGR OAK TREES DOWN AT LASATER STREET AND RICE STREET 0752 PM TSTM WND DMG FALFURRIAS 27.23N 98.15W 05/27/2014 BROOKS TX EMERGENCY MNGR REPORTS OF STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO BUSINESS SIGNS ON CENTER STREET 0801 PM TSTM WND GST FALFURRIAS 27.22N 98.14W 05/27/2014 M61 MPH BROOKS TX AWOS OBSERVING SYSTEM REPORTED A 53 KNOT GUST. 0802 PM TSTM WND DMG FALFURRIAS 27.22N 98.15W 05/27/2014 BROOKS TX LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS OF NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON ST. MARYS STREET 0805 PM HAIL FALFURRIAS 27.22N 98.14W 05/27/2014 E1.75 INCH BROOKS TX PUBLIC GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED 0830 PM FLOOD 1 S FALFURRIAS 27.21N 98.15W 05/27/2014 BROOKS TX AMATEUR RADIO MINOR FLOODING AT CALDWELL STREET AND TERRELL STREET ************************************** 0410 PM TSTM WND GST BAYVIEW 26.12N 97.40W 05/28/2014 M67 MPH CAMERON TX ASOS ASOS REPORTED AT 58 KNOT WIND GUSTS. 0413 PM HAIL PORT ISABEL 26.07N 97.22W 05/28/2014 E0.75 INCH CAMERON TX PUBLIC PUBLIC REPORTED PENNY SIZED HAIL IN PORT ISABEL. 0437 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 ENE BROWNSVILLE 25.93N 97.47W 05/28/2014 CAMERON TX NWS EMPLOYEE SEVERAL ONE TO TWO FOOT DIAMETER TREES SNAPPED. WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH. 0516 PM FLOOD BROWNSVILLE 25.93N 97.48W 05/28/2014 E2.00 INCH CAMERON TX BROADCAST MEDIA TWO FEET OF STANDING WATER REPORTED IN BROWNSVILLE VIA POLICE SCANNER. 0622 PM FLOOD BROWNSVILLE 25.93N 97.48W 05/28/2014 CAMERON TX EMERGENCY MNGR STREETS AROUND PALM BLVD IN DOWNTOWN BROWNSVILLE WITH AS MUCH AS 18 INCHES OF RUNNING WATER. TRASH CANS FLOATING DOWN THE ROADWAY. WATER WAS RECEEDING QUICKLY AS OF 620 PM. 0730 PM HAIL 3 N RIO GRANDE CITY 26.42N 98.83W 05/28/2014 E1.25 INCH STARR TX TRAINED SPOTTER VIDEO SUGGESTED HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE. SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 0730 PM TSTM WND GST 3 N RIO GRANDE CITY 26.42N 98.83W 05/28/2014 E60 MPH STARR TX TRAINED SPOTTER WIND GUSTS 50 TO 60 MPH. 0730 PM HEAVY RAIN 3 N RIO GRANDE CITY 26.42N 98.83W 05/28/2014 E4.50 INCH STARR TX TRAINED SPOTTER POCKETS OF FIELD FLOODING REPORTED.