Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 1996, 6:40 AM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 10, 1996, 6:40 AM CDT (11:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1996, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webb County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 2255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 101145 FFWCRP TXC479-101345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 640 AM CDT WED JUL 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WEBB COUNTY THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEBB COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MEXICO WAS MOVING EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS WHICH WILL ADD TO THE HIGH RAINFALL TOTALS FROM RAINS LAST NIGHT AND EARLIER THIS MORNING. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE RIVER AND SPREAD INTO WEBB COUNTY. RUNOFF FROM THE RAIN WILL RAPIDLY POOL INTO LOW LYING AREAS AND STREAMS EVEN AFTER THE RAIN STOPS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS TH$E ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 Jul 10, 2:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 225 AM CDT WED JUL 10 1996 OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FM TSRA OVR W PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND AND THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS MADE IT TO NWSO CRP BUT QUICKLY COLLAPSED. ATTM...88D INDICATING A LARGE AREA OF SHRA/TSRA OVR S CENT TX AND SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS TSRA OVR THE LWR VALLEY. THE UPR LO NEAR DRT CONTS TO EJECT IMPULSES OVR S TX INITIATING THE CNVTN. 88D ESTIMATES OF 3 TO 7 INCHES WERE COMMON OVR PORTIONS OF THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS. ETA PROGS SHOW UPR LO GRADUALLY WEAKENING AND DRFTG WWD THRU 48 HRS WHICH IS PREFERRED OVR THE NGM WHICH RETAINS AND DSIPTS THE LO OVR ITS CURRENT POS. MODELS INDICATE ATMOS BEGINNING TO DRY OUT ALNG S TX AND ADJACENT GULF WATERS WED EVENING AND THU AS MID/UPR HI CURRENTLY OVR THE GULF MVS WWD TOWARD S TX. DRIER AIR AND SUBSIDENCE MVNG INTO THE AREA WL INHIBIT CNVTN WED NIGHT AND THU...ESPECIALLY W/THE ENERGY FM THE UPR LO MVNG AWAY FM THE AREA. WUD XPCT POPS TO REMAIN TODAY...ESP OVR W PORTIONS OF THE FA. CURRENT FORECAST IS ON TRACK AND MOS TEMPS LUK GOOD. PRELIMS... CRP 093/077/094 20/00/00 VCT 094/076/094 20/00/00 LRD 099/077/100 30/20/00 SRP...77
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 3 hr |
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.