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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1997, 3:12 AM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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 15, 1997, 3:12 AM CDT (08:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 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 08:16 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, 8.2 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
- 4284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 150813 FFWCRP TXC479-151115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 312 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WEBB COUNTY ...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN WEBB COUNTY... DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WEBB COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR ONE HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS WERE 1.75 INCHES. RESIDENTS IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD BE READY TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED IN YOUR AREA. THE LAREDO SHERRIFS OFFICE AND DPS HAVE REPORTED GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NOW MOVING INTO THE CITY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLAS(H 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 15, 2:38 AM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:38 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 235 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 KCRP 88D SHOWING SHRA/TSRA OVER W/NW SECTIONS OF THE FA THIS AM. STRONGEST TSRA REMAIN W AND NW OF THE FA ATTM. WITH MOVMT TO THE E SOME OF THIS PCPN WILL LIKELY MAKE IT FURTHER INTO THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA. SO FAR JUST LGT PCPN FROM REPORTS WE HAVE RECEIVED. BEST LOOKING STORM CURRENTLY IS W OF COT. AFTER THIS ROUND AREA WILL LIKELY GO BACK TO SEEING ONLY WIDELY SCT OR ISOLATED CONVECTION WITH H5 RIDGE REMAINING IN PLACE. MOST OF THE FA AND SEEP S TX WILL REMAIN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE H5 RIDGE THRU THE FCST PERIOD. RIDGE ACTUALLY LOOKS TO BUILD AGAIN OVER THE AREA DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK. THIS SHD KEEP PCPN AT A MINIMUM AND TEMPS RIGHT WHERE THEY SHD BE FOR MID TO LATE JUNE. H5 LOW OVER THE SW MOVES TO THE E AND BEGINS TO WEAKEN. BY 00Z TUE THE MODELS BRING THE LOW TO THE TX PANHANDLE. CROSS SECTION DATA SHOWS BEST VVELS FOR CRP/VCT THRU 12Z THIS AM...SAME AT LRD THEN ADDITIONAL UVM FROM 18Z MON TO 00Z TUE. BY 00Z MON DRIER AIR WAS NOTED FROM H8 UP AT CRP. LRD AND VCT DO NOT LOOK AS DRY. PWAT VALUES WERE NEAR 2 INCHES ON THE 00Z SOUNDING. PWAT FCST TO REMAIN 1.60 OR GREATER THRU 48 HRS WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION OF 1.40 AT 12Z MON. BEST THTE VALUES CONTINUE OUT WEST AND INTO NORTH CENTRAL TX ALONG THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF H5 RIDGE. A LLJ WAS NOTED OVER THE AREA FROM 18Z SUN THRU 12Z MON. THIS SHD INSURE AT LEAST BREEZY CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOONS. H7 TEMPS REMAIN HIGH AND THIS WILL HELP INSURE A CAP ON MOST CONVECTION. H7 TEMPS REMAIN AT OR ABOVE 12 DEG C THRU 48 HRS. LG AREA OF 14 DEG C OVER MOST OF DEEP S TX THRU 48 HRS. ATMOSPHERE REMAINED UNSTABLE WITH LI OF -6...CAPES OF 4350 AND K INDEX OF 21. CAP WAS DOWN TO 3 DEG C. MARINE DATA: BUOY OFFSHORE SE WND 10 KTS...SEAS 2 FT. TODAY...MOSTLY CLDY WITH % CHC FOR SHRA/TSRA THIS MORNING...BECMG P/C DURING THE AFTERNOON. SE WNDS 15 TO 20 MPH AND GUSTY. LRD VRBL WND 10 TO 15 MPH THIS AM...BECMG SE 15 TO 20 AND GUSTY. TONIGHT...P/C. SE WND NEAR 10 MPH FOR VCT...SE 10 TO 15 MPH CRP...15 TO 20 MPH FOR LRD. MON...P/C. SE WND 15 TO( 20 MPH AND GUSTY. CRP BB 090/077/092/077 2/1/1/0 NGP BB 088/080/089/080 LRD BB 103/079/104/078 3/2/1/0 VCT BB 090/076/092/076 2/1/1/0 MSL...73
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 3 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.