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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bee County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 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 242345 FFWCRP TXC025-250045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 645 PM CDT SAT AUG 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN BEE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SKIDMORE IN SOUTHERN BEE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF NEAR 2 INCHES PER HOUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 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 Aug 24, 2:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 235 PM CDT SAT AUG 24 1996 DISCUSSION...BAND OF TROPICAL MOISTURE IS TRANSLATING INLAND ATTM AS KCRP-88D INDICATING 0.50-1.00 INCH OHP TOTALS ACROSS THE REGION WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS (CRP ASOS 2.53 INCHES!)...FFS ISSUED AS BAND MOVED INLAND AND HANDLED THE SITUATION NICELY. ETA/NGM FOUS DATA INDICATES LOWER UVV VALUES AND MOS GUIDANCE HINTS TOWARD LOWER POPS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD AS SFC MOISTURE CNVGNC WEAKENS ACROSS THE AREA. RAFL POTENTIAL DECREASES SIGNIFICANTLY BEYOND 48HRS AS UPPER WAVE PATTERN TRANSFORMS INTO A TROF-RDG-TROF CONFIGURATION ACROSS THE U.S. THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEK. LAND/SEA INTERACTION BNDRY WL BE OUR LIFTING MECHANISM THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED. OTRW...CFW REMAINS THRU SUNDAY AM WITH SCA IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS. THE FORECASTED NUMBERS ARE NEXT... CRP EE 075/089 076/092 076 3420 VCT EE 074/088 075/090 076 3420 LRD EE 075/088 076/094 077 4320 BML...76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.