Severe Wildfire ● Monitoring
Red Flag Warning issued October 16 at 5:51PM CDT until October 17 at 7:00AM CDT by NWS Brownsville TX, United States of America
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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.
Measurements
| Coordinates | 39.9645, -100.8105 |
|---|---|
| Region | Zapata; Jim Hogg; Brooks; Inland Kenedy; Starr; Southern Hidalgo; Inland Willacy; Inland Cameron; Northern Hidalgo |
| Location Precision | country |
| Issuing Authority | United States of America — us-noaa-nws-en |
| Cap Urgency | Expected |
| Cap Certainty | Likely |
| Cap Expires | 2026-10-17T07:00:00-05:00 |
Official source
Warnings courtesy of the issuing national meteorological service, via the WMO Alert Hub.
This is an official warning issued by the authority named above. Follow its instructions and those of your local emergency services.
Severity as published by WMO Alert Hub (national weather services).
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Source updated 2 days ago (Oct 16, 2026 22:53 UTC) · we last heard from WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) 57 seconds ago
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Internet connectivity at the time
Internet connectivity in United States dropped 25 hours after this event, and stayed disrupted for about 1 hour.
From 18 Oct 2026 00:00 UTC to 18 Oct 2026 01:00 UTC. Detected by active probing — networks that stopped answering.
Internet outages have many causes — damaged cables, power failures, network maintenance and deliberate shutdowns among them. IODA detects the loss of connectivity and does not attribute it to anything. This is shown because it happened at the same time, not because one caused the other.
Measured by IODA, Georgia Institute of Technology.
About this location
The agency did not publish coordinates for this warning. The pin is the centre of the country, not the location of the event — read the area name, not the map, for where it applies.
Area as the agency stated it: Zapata; Jim Hogg; Brooks; Inland Kenedy; Starr; Southern Hidalgo; Inland Willacy; Inland Cameron; Northern Hidalgo
Official authorities in United States
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