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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

April 2, 1997Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 2, 1997, 9:45 PM CST for Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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: Apr 2, 1997, 9:45 PM CST (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1997, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 30 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRP 030346
FFWCRP
TXC273-355-030800-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
945 PM CST WED APR 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...KLEBERG AND NUECES
 
DOPPLER RADAR IS INDICATING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER
NUECES AND KLEBERG COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WITHIN A VERY SHORT TIME.
ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM BENAVIDES TO PREMONT WHICH
ARE ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING TOWARD KINGSVILLE AND
THE CORPUS CHRISTI METROPOLITAN AREA. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED AMOUNTS
UP TO 4 INCHES IS POSSIBLE. CONTINUED HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT COMBINED
WITH ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS WILL FURTHER AGGRAVATE FLOODING
PROBLEMS.
 
WE ARE MONITORING THE AREA CLOSELY AND WILL ISSUE UPDATED STATEMENTS
ONCE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.
 
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.
 
 
 
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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 Apr 2, 7:08 PM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 7:08 PM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
705 PM CST WED APR 02 1997

TOO MUCH WX GOING ON RIGHT NOW. S/WS TRIGGERING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
TSTMS. NO CHANGES NECESSARY TO PREVIOUS FCST. FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN
EFFECT FOR GOLIAD AND VCT COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM...MAY HAVE TO BE
EXTENDED. FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MOST OF THE CWA FOR TONIGHT THROUGH
THURSDAY ALSO LUKS GOOD. FUTURE IMPULSES WL TRIGGER MORE SHOWERS
ALONG A MOIST AXIS ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAINS TONIGHT AND THURSDAY.
00Z CRP SOUNDING (FM THE SHARP PROGRAM) REVEALS IMPRESSIVE PW OF 2.01
INCHES AND A K INDEX OF 38! LACK OF A CAP (0.4 DEG C) AND CAPE VALUES
OF 1000+ JKG-1 THE SHRA/TSRA DVLPMNT VERY LKLY TO CONT. WL LEAVE ANY
MAJOR CHANGES TO THE MID-SHIFT UPON REVIEW OF 00Z MODEL OUTPUT
CONCERNING THE WATCH AREAS.

SRP...77

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 4:00 PM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
400 PM CST WED APR 02 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

100 PM     CORPUS CHRISTI            TX   FLASH FLOODING
04/02/97   NUECES                         3.00 INCHES OF RAIN
                                          MINOR STREET FLOODING
                                          ON SOUTH SIDE OF CORPUS
                                          CHRISTI NEAR SARATOGA
                                          AND WEBER.

210 PM     GOLIAD                    TX   FLASH FLOODING
04/02/97   GOLIAD                         WATER OVER ROADWAY ON HWY 59
                                          15 MILES WEST OF GOLIAD.
                                          2 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2 HOURS.

330 PM     MISSION VALLEY            TX   FLOODING
04/02/97   VICTORIA                       WATER OVER ROADWAY HWY 236
                                    AND 662.  5 INCHES OF RAINFALL
                                    HAS OCCURRED OVER THE AREA.

0330 PM    VICTORIA            TX   FLOODING
04/02/97   VICTORIA                 STREETS FLOODED IN nAND
                                    AROUND THE CITY OF VICTORIA

Local storm report, Apr 2, 5:45 PM CST, 4 hours before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT...UPDATED AND CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
545 PM CST WED APR 02 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

100 PM     CORPUS CHRISTI            TX   FLASH FLOODING
04/02/97   NUECES                         3.00 INCHES OF RAIN
                                          MINOR STREET FLOODING
                                          ON SOUTH SIDE OF CORPUS
                                          CHRISTI NEAR SARATOGA
                                          AND WEBER.

210 PM     GOLIAD                    TX   FLASH FLOODING
04/02/97   GOLIAD                         WATER OVER ROADWAY ON HWY 59
                                          15 MILES WEST OF GOLIAD.
                                          2 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2 HOURS.

330 PM     MISSION VALLEY            TX   FLOODING
04/02/97   VICTORIA                       WATER OVER ROADWAY HWY 236
                                          AND 662.  FIVE INCHES OF
                                          RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER
                                          THE AREA.

0330 PM    VICTORIA                  TX   FLOODING
04/02/97   VICTORIA                       STREETS FLOODED IN AND
                                          AROUND THE CITY OF VICTORIA
                                          FROM 3-5 INCHES OF RAIN.

METZ

Local storm report, Apr 2, 5:49 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT...UPDATED AND CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
545 PM CST WED APR 02 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

100 PM     CORPUS CHRISTI            TX   FLASH FLOODING
04/02/97   NUECES                         3.00 INCHES OF RAIN
                                          MINOR STREET FLOODING
                                          ON SOUTH SIDE OF CORPUS
                                          CHRISTI NEAR SARATOGA
                                          AND WEBER.

210 PM     GOLIAD                    TX   FLASH FLOODING
04/02/97   GOLIAD                         WATER OVER ROADWAY ON HWY 59
                                          15 MILES WEST OF GOLIAD.
                                          2 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2 HOURS.

330 PM     MISSION VALLEY            TX   FLOODING
04/02/97   VICTORIA                       WATER OVER ROADWAY HWY 236
                                          AND 662.  FIVE INCHES OF
                                          RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER
                                          THE AREA.

0330 PM    VICTORIA                  TX   FLOODING
04/02/97   VICTORIA                       STREETS FLOODED IN AND
                                          AROUND THE CITY OF VICTORIA
                                          FROM 3-5 INCHES OF RAIN.

METZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 9:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells	4 hr
Apr 2, 10:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	San Patricio	4 hr
Apr 3, 12:29 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas	4 hr
Apr 3, 2:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	5 hr
Apr 3, 2:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval	5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.