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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 21, 1997, 3:10 PM CDT for Kleberg 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
- May 21, 1997, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kleberg County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 212014 FFWCRP TXC273-220015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 310 PM CDT WED MAY 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...KLEBERG COUNTY AT 310 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN IN KLEBERG COUNTY. THIS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH. OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT THE KINGSVILLE NAVAL AIR STATION DURING THE PAST HOUR...AND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN JUST SOUTHWEST OF RICARDO DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS. BECAUSE OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...UP TO 2 MORE INCHES IS POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 May 21, 2:38 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:38 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 230 PM CDT WED MAY 21 1997 UPPER LVL VORT MAX EXITING SE TX INTO LA WITH 12Z MODELS SHOWING NVA OVER OUR REGION THIS AFTN. WV LOOP DEPICTS NEXT S/W ALG RIO GRANDE MOVG EAST. LONG WAVE TROF OVER MEXICO WILL REMAIN IN PLACE NEXT 48HRS WHILE EJECTING S/W'S OVER S TX SUSTAINING OUR CHANCES OF RAIN INTO THE WEEKEND. QUASI-STATIONARY BNDRY LOCATE ALG AND JUST OFF THE TX COAST WILL ACT AS A WEAK FOCUS FOR CONVECTION TONIGHT AND THURSDAY AS NGM SHIFTS OUR WINDS SE TOO SOON. ALL MODELS DEVELOP PRECIP ALG AND NORTH OF THIS BNDRY WHERE PWS POOL TO 1.60 TO 1.80 INCHES. 88D STP ALREADY PICKING UP 3.00 INCHES OF RAIN OVER KENEDY CTY AND THE PRECIP IS MOVG SLOWLY NWD. PRECIP SHOULD BE ENHANCED BY APCHG S/W THIS EVENING WITH LOCALLY HVY RAINFALL FROM CRP-VCT. WILL INCREASE POPS TO 50 PERCENT RANGE THIS EVENING AS AREAL COVERAGE IS FILLING IN. NO CONVECTION FIRING OVER MX MTNS YET THIS AFTN. FNT WILL DRIFT NWD THURS AND FOCUS RAINS OVER THE NRN CNTYS WHEN NEXT PIECE OF ENERGY MOVES IN FROM MX. SUBTROP JET NOTED ON WV LOOP CROSSING CNTRL MX ATTM. WINDS NR THE COAST SHOULD SHIFT E-SE NR 15 MPH ON THURS AS SEA BREEZE DEVELOPS. TEMPS WILL SLOWLY MODIFY INTO THE WEEKEND...BUT NOT TOO MUCH. TEMPS/POPS... CRP EE 071/083 071/085 5423 NGP EE 072/081 072/083 VCT EE 069/081 070/084 5423 LRD EE 072/084 072/086 4323 JM...075 PUBLIC / SG...83 AVIATION
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg | 60 min |
| May 21, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 59 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.