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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

September 20, 1996Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 20, 1996, 1:22 PM CDT for Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 20, 1996, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 1996, 4:30 PM 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, 6.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-09-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2005 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1996-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
2005 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.3

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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.

NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 20, 10:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 10:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1000 AM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996

TSRA PRODUCING A TOR ACRS LIVE OAK CNTY ATTM MOVING TO THE SE
SEEMS TO BE WKNG SOME.  ALSO...SHRA ALG CST NR PORT ARANSAS
PRODUCED FUNNEL CLOUDS.  NO CHGS TO PREV FCST.

JAC...71

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 9:26 AM CDTTornado WarningCRPLive Oak64 min
Sep 20, 11:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPJim Wells65 min
Sep 20, 11:59 AM CDTTornado WarningCRPJim Wells61 min
Sep 20, 12:21 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPNueces54 min
Sep 20, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPKleberg59 min
Sep 20, 1:14 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPNueces61 min
Sep 20, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPKleberg52 min

Nearby

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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.