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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1992, 8:04 AM CDT for Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1992, 8:04 AM CDT (13:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1992, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 30 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1974 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ040-049-020900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 200 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 1992 ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR CALHOUN...DEWITT...GOLIAD...JACKSON...LAVACA...AND VICTORIA COUNTIES... AT 155 AM CDT VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING FROM NEAR SAN ANTONIO TO MOULTON TO COLLEGE STATION WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL INDICATED NEAR SAN ANTONIO...SHINER...COLUMBUS...AND BRENHAM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEEN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN NORTHERN DEWITT AND LAVACA COUNTIES CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINFALL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 03
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:14 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ040-049-021200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 510 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 1992 ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR CALHOUN...DEWITT...GOLIAD...JACKSON...LAVACA...AND VICTORIA COUNTIES... AT 505 AM CDT VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING FROM SAN ANTONIO TO AUSTIN TO COLLEGE STATION TO HOUSTON TO MATHIS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAD BEEN OCCURRING NEAR VICTORIA AND GANADO AND SOUTH OF EL CAMPO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN VICTORIA AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINFALL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR[ RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 03
Local storm report, Jun 2, 7:07 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
700 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 1992
...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT...
6/2/92 0330 AM CDT...YOAKUM POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE
HAIL IN YOAKU%M.
03The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas | 23 min |
| Jun 2, 7:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 27 min |
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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.