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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 6, 1997Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1997, 11:08 PM CDT for Nueces 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
Jun 6, 1997, 11:08 PM CDT (04:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1997, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 17 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2334 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRP 070408
FFWCRP
TXC355-070615-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1108 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NUECES COUNTY...ESPECIALLY THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI...
 
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED OVER THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRIST.
THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS NOTED FROM DOWNTOWN TO THE NAVAL AIR
STATION SOUTH INTO THE SOUTH SIDE OF CORPUS CHRISTI.  RAINFALL
OF 1 TO 3 INCHES IS HIGHLY LIKELY WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 4 INCHES
POSSIBLE.
 
FLOODING ON THE ACCESS ROADS ON SPID IS LIKELY AS WELL AS CREEKS...
STREAMS AND LOW-WATER CROSSINGS.
 
HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI UNTIL
1 AM.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST.
 
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOG0NIZE
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.

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 Jun 6, 8:08 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 8:08 PM CDT, 3 hours before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
808 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL SLOWLY MOVING EAST.
WILL NEED TO INCREASE POPS CRP AND VCT AREAS AND INCLUDE LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.  00Z CRP SOUNDING UNSTABLE WITH CAPE OF 3000...
LI OF -6 AND A PWS OF NEAR 2.00 INCHES.  EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE
MARCHING EASTWARD HOWEVER WITH THE LACK OF DAY TIME HEATING STORMS
WILL SLOWLY BEING TO DIE DOWN.

UPPER LOW IN THE S.W. U.S. WILL SEND DISTURBANCES INTO TEXAS AND
WILL NEED TO KEEP POPS ONGOING THROUGH OUT THE WEEKEND.

CHANGES NEEDED IN THE ZONES TONIGHT...
VCT AND CRP...60 POPS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.  LOW...NEAR 70
INLAND TO THE LOW 70S COAST.  SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10...HIGHER NEAR
STORMS.
LRD...DROP SVR WATCH.  POPS 40 PERCENT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.
LOW...NEAR 70.  SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
LUNA...0074

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 8:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ229-230-239-070215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
832 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR LASALLE...MCMULLEN AND WEBB
COUNTIES...

THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED HOWEVER SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT AND AGAIN SATURDAY.  THE
MAJOR THREAT FROM THE STORMS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL BE THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

LUNA
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 8:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ229-230-239-070215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
832 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR LASALLE...MCMULLEN AND WEBB
COUNTIES...

THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED HOWEVER SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT AND AGAIN SATURDAY.  THE
MAJOR THREAT FROM THE STORMS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL BE THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

LUNA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLive Oak, McMullen60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997Every 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.