Red Flag Warning issued October 16 at 5:51PM CDT until October 17 at 7:00AM CDT by NWS Brownsville TX
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...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL INCREASE WILDFIRE THREAT... .A strong cold front will push south through Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley today, with a secondary surge of strong northerly winds arriving late this evening through late Saturday morning. Relative humidity values are expected to drop this afternoon with little to no recovery into Saturday morning. Any wildfire that can develop will behave dangerously with erratic growth and spread due to strong winds and lower humidity. A Red Flag Warning remains in effect. * WINDS...North 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 24 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fire that can develop will behave dangerously with erratic growth and spread. A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.
- Event time
- Source last updated
- Current version retrieved
- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- TX, US
- Severity
- Severe
- area
- Zapata; Jim Hogg; Brooks; Inland Kenedy; Starr; Southern Hidalgo; Inland Willacy; Inland Cameron; Northern Hidalgo
- event
- Red Flag Warning
- onset
- 2026-10-16T17:51:00-05:00
- states
- ["TX"]
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Likely
- effective
- 2026-10-16T17:51:00-05:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.87a430b5aa1e7332ef521d4276d15af0797353d6.001.1
- references
- ["urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.7bd229de2edcea0712f0364c4e58e7a4306bb14b.001.1","urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.027af167b82546c6bca300e87ddb224bfb163ead.001.2"]
- instruction
- A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.
- message type
- Update
- freshness minutes
- 60
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