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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 24, 1996Bee County, Refugio County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 1996, 7:41 PM CDT for Bee County, Refugio 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
Aug 24, 1996, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bee County, TX, Refugio County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 24, 2:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 6:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPWebb3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

Sources

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