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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 21, 1991Duval County, Jim Wells County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Dec 21, 1991, 3:17 PM CST for Duval County, Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 21, 1991, 3:17 PM CST (21:17 UTC)
Expired
Dec 21, 1991, 8:15 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-12-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 842 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-12-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
842 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 21, 1:25 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Live Oak6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.