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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 1997, 8:43 PM CDT for Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 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 17, 1997, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kleberg County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 3875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 180149 FFWCRP TXC273-180245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 843 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...KLEBERG COUNTY AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF KINGSVILLE. THE STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY WITH A SLIGHT MOVEMENT TO THE EAST NOTED. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF KINGSVILLE AND RICARDO WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN LEADING TO FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADWAYS. DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
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 17, 7:50 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 7:50 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 750 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 NOT MUCH TIME FOR A DISCUSSION THIS EVENING WITH SVR WX ONGOING ACRS THE CWA. QUICK LOOK AT ADAP SFC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE INDICATES TSTMS ARE MOVING INTO AREAS OF MAX CONVERGENCE. 00Z CRP SOUNDING REVEALS ATMOSPHERE EXTREMELY SATURATED (PWAT 2.30 IN) WITH LTL CAP. GOING FCST WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND MENTION OF HVY RAIN LOOKS GOOD. SVR TSTM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10PM FOR ENTIRE CWA ALSO. NO CHGS NEEDED TO CURRENT ZONES. CNJ...85
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 8:43 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
TXZ234-247-180245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 843 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR VICTORIA AND CALHOUN COUNTIES... THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF CALHOUN AND VICTORIA COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST VICTORIA AND NORTHERN CALHOUN COUNTIES. THE FLOODED LOW-LYING AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS SHOULD RECEDE BY LATE EVENING. MOTORISTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE EXTREME CAUTION AND SHOULD NEVER CROSS A FLOODED ROAD. LUNA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 76 min |
| Jun 17, 7:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 90 min |
| Jun 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 90 min |
| Jun 17, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 10:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 119 min |
| Jun 17, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 4 hr |
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.