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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1997, 6:43 PM CDT for Live Oak 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 19, 1997, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1997, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 3969 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 192343 FFWCRP TXC297-200145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 643 PM CDT THU JUN 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...LIVE OAK COUNTY AT 640 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 4 INHES OF RAIN OVER SOUTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF GEORGE WEST... DINERO AND LAGARTO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY AND WILL MOVE NORTHWARD NEAR THE GEORGE WEST AND THREE RIVERS AREAS. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY NEAR RIVER AND CREEK BASINS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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 Jun 19, 2:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 220 PM CDT THU JUN 19 1997 KCRP 88D BASE REF SHOWS WIDELY SCT SHRA/TSRA FM CRP-VCT-HOU. THE COMBINATION OF AFTERNOON HEATING AND A SEABREEZE FNT HAS LED TO DVLPMNT OF THESE STMS. ADAP GRAPHICS CONT TO SHOW A CAP-LESS AND UNSTABLE AMS ACROSS THE FA. TSRA SHUD CONT INTO THE EVENING HRS ALONG THE COASTAL PLAINS AS THE SEABREEZE PUSHES WELL INLAND. ADDITIONAL STMS MAY AFFECT THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AREA AS A VORT MAX STRENGHTENS OVR S CENT TX. LIFT FM THIS SYSTEM WL SPREAD SLOWLY EWD OVR TONIGHT INTO FRI...FOR THIS REASON WL KP SCT POPS IN FOR LRD...WIDELY SCT FOR CRP/VCT TONIGHT AND INCREASE POPS IN CRP/VCT AREAS TOMORROW. ETA TIME SXTNS SHOW UVVS PRESENT FRI ALONG WITH DIFFLUENCE ALF...HI CAPE VALUES AND AMPLE MOISTURE (PWS AROUND 1.6 INCHES). LO PRES ACROSS THE CENT THIRD OF THE NATION WL LEAD TO A STRONGER PGF ACROSS THE FA. THESE HIER WINDS ARE REFLECTED IN NGM MOS GUIDANCE AND THE PREVIOUS FCST...SO WL NOT DEVIATE MUCH. MARINE INFO... JUST OFFSHORE FM PTA...WIND ESE AROUND 20KT. NO SEAS GIVEN. /CRP/VCT/ .TONIGHT...M/C. (EVENING POPS CRP) SE WIND 10-15 MPH. .FRI...PARTLY-M/C. SE AND S WIND 15-25. .FRI NIGHT...M/C. .SAT...PARTLY-M/C. /LRD/ .TONIGHT...P/C. SE WIND NEAR 15 MPH. .FRI...P/C. SE WIND 15-20 MPH. .FRI NIGHT...P/C. .SAT...P/C. PRELIMS... CRP 078/092/077/092 2423 NGP 081/088/081/088 2423 VCT 074/090/075/090 3423 LRD 078/100/076/100 3222 SRP...77
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 68 min |
| Jun 19, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 68 min |
| Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 68 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.