Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 6:44 PM 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.