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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 1996, 7:26 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
- Aug 30, 1996, 7:26 AM CDT (12:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 1996, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:26 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, 0.4 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
- 2664 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 30, 2:19 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 2:19 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 220 AM CDT FRI AUG 30 1996 DISCUSSION...FFA CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE NRN PORTIONS OF THE CWA ATTM AND CURRENT AREAL CONFIGURATION IN PHASE WITH KCRP-88D DATA. CURRENT RAFL ACTIVITY EXTENDS FROM COTULLA TO THREE RIVERS TO VCT AND NWD WITH AN EWD COMPONENT OF PROPAGATION NOTED. CURRENT VILS OF 30 KG/M2 COMBINED WITH ET HEIGHTS AOA 45K FT YIELD A VIL DENSITY < 3.0 ATTM...HVY RAFL IS THE MAIN THREAT. ACTIVITY CONFINED TO THE CURRENT FFA OUTLINE AND SEE LITTLE REASON FOR ANY SWD EXTENSION FOR THE UPCOMING PACKAGE. AFTER COORDINATION WITH WFO EWX WL MONITOR AREAL COVERAGE/MOVEMENT CAREFULLY AS WL 2ND SHIFT FOR ANY ADDITIONAL AREAS OF CWA NEEDED TO BE INCLUDED TO FFA. 00Z CRP SOUNDING SIMILAR TO 12Z WITH K-INDEX OF 30 AND PW VALUE OF 2.01 INCHES. B+ HAS INCREASED FROM 3012 TO 4004 J/KG. H5 TROF AXIS PUSHES S AND SEWD WITH TIME AS CLOSED H5 HEIGHT CENTER EVOLVES OVR E TX BY 12Z SAT WITH ASSOCIATED TROF EXTENSION ACROSS THE FA. TIME CROSS-SECTIONS REVEAL GREATEST VERTICAL MOTION/THETA-E ADVECTION VALUES THROUGH 36 HRS WITH ABUNDANT LOW-MID LEVEL MOISTURE AS ENTIRE REGION EXISTS BENEATH A DIVERGENT H2 RRQ JET STREAK ENHANCING QPF TOTALS ACROSS THE REGION. OTRW...URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY WBIS FOR LASALLE CO AS HVY RAINS CONTINUE WITH OHP TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 2.5 IN/HR AND THP ISOLATED MAX OF 6 INCHES! CRP WE 089/072 089/074 090 764 VCT WE 086/073 086/074 089 875 LRD WE 092/074 092/075 094 664 BML...76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 3:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle | 116 min |
| Aug 30, 9:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.