Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 1997, 12:21 AM CST for Bee County, Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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 4, 1997, 12:21 AM CST (06:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1997, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 040621 FFWCRP TXC025-175-041100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1221 AM CST FRI APR 4 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BEE AND GOLIAD DOPPLER RADAR IS INDICATING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS BEE AND GOLIAD COUNTIES. ESTIMATES OF 1 TO 1 3/4 INCHES BY DOPPLER RADAR ARE COMMON FROM BEEVILLE TO GOLIAD. ADDITIONAL RAIN TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. THE GROUND IS SATURATED AND THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WITH AGGRAVATE FLOOD PROBLEMS. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION AND WILL ISSUE ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGH GROUND. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
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 3, 8:15 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 8:15 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 815 PM CST THU APR 03 1997 88D PICTURE MUCH DIFFERENT FM THIS TIME COMPARED TO LAST NIGHT. 00Z CRP SOUNDING (CALCULATED FM SHARP) SHOWS AMPLE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY REMAINING IN PLACE...PW OF 1.86...LI -5 AND CAPE VALUES OVR 1700 JKG-1. GIVEN THE AFOREMENTIONED PARAMETERS AND THE APPROACH OF ANOTHER IMPULSE...CONVECTIVE DVLPMNT A GOOD POSSIBILITY...OF WHICH THE CURRENT FCST AND FFA HANDLES FINE. SURROUNDING 88D SITES ARE INDICATING SOME CNVTN FIRING ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE SIGNIFYING THE APPROACH OF THE NXT IMPULSE. ADAP GRAPHICS SHOW WK SFC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ACROSS THE S TX...HOWEVER UNLIKE YESTERDAY...STREAMLINE ANALYSIS DOES NOT SHOW ANY SIGNIFICANT DISCONTINUITY ALONG THE COASTAL BEND...BUT DOES ALONG THE FNTL BNDRY OVR THE TX PANHANDLE AND THE BIG BEND REGION. OUTFLO BNDRIES FM CNVTN THIS AM AND FM CNVTN OVR THE GULF MAY HELP TO FOCUS THE PRECIP ASSOC WITH THE ADVANCING IMPULSE. CAP WL LKLY STRENGTHEN IN RESPONSE TO INCREASING WARM H85 WINDS WHICH WL ALSO AID IN SHIFTING THE MOISTURE POOL TO SE AND E TX. BRO'S CAP IS ALREADY AROUND 2 DEG C AND GRIDDED ETA DATA NOTES H85 TEMPS WARMING TO NEAR 20 DEG C TOMORROW ACROSS S TX. IF CAPS CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN AND MOISTURE POOLING SHIFTS SIGNIFICANTLY NWD...THE FFA WL NEED TO BE RE-EVALUATED AND POSSIBLY DROPPED FOR SOME AREAS OF THE CWA. ANY OF THESE CHANGES CAN BE HANDLE BY FOLLOWING SHIFTS UPON REVIEW OF THE 00Z OR THE 12Z FRI AM MODEL OUTPUTS. OTHER THAN IMPULSES CROSSING INTO S TX...FCSTD UVVS ARE NOTED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE CF WHICH WL PROGRESS TOWARD S TX FRI. CONVECTIVE DVLPMNT IS POSSIBLE WITHIN THIS REGIME...PARTICULARLY OVR NRN PRTNS OF THE FA. MEANWHILE THE PERSISTANT UPR LO WL FINALLY OPEN UP AND TRACK INTO THE PLAINS ALLOWING FOR DRYING WLY FLOW ALF...SO MAY SEE THE SUN AGAIN SAT. SMALL CRAFT ADVSRY LUKS GOOD WITH WIND/SEAS AT OR NEAR CRITERIA. SRP...77
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 9:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 11:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:34 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 2:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 3:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 3:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 47 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.