Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 1997, 5:15 PM CST for Calhoun County, Refugio County, Victoria 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
- Mar 18, 1997, 5:15 PM CST (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1997, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, TX, Refugio County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 182320 FFWCRP TXC057-175-391-469-190200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 515 PM CST TUE MAR 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...CALHOUN COUNTY...GOLIAD COUNTY...REFUGIO COUNTY ...VICTORIA COUNTY AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FROM CORPUS CHRISTI TO SINTON TO REFUGIO TO PORT LAVACA. OTHER AREAS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES FROM GOLIAD TO VICTORIA TO PALACIOS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN REFUGIO AND CALHOUN COUNTIES IN THE PAST 3 HOURS...WITH 1.5 INCHES IN SOUTHERN REFUGIO COUNTY DURING THE PAST HOUR. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL HAS SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED IN VICTORIA AND GOLIAD COUNTIES DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS...FLOODING CONTINUES THROUGHOUT BOTH COUNTIES AND FURTHER RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES TOWARD SOUTH TEXAS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGhES...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 Mar 18, 2:52 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 2:52 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 250 PM CST TUE MAR 18 1997 DISCUSSION...RAPID CNVCTV DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN ACROSS WRN AND NRN SECTIONS OF THE CWA. SVR TSTM WATCH ISSUED FOR SAN PATRICIO/ARANSAS/ CALHOUN/VICTORIA/GOLIAD AND REFUGIO COUNTIES THROUGH 01Z. TSTM ACTIVITY DEVELOPING ALONG PRE-FRONTAL TROF BNDRY ACROSS WRN ZONES ATTM AND SVR TSTM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR DUVAL AND LIVE OAK COUNTIES. FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR GOLIAD/CALHOUN/VICTORIA AND REFUGIO. SPECIAL MARINE WARNING ISSUED FOR SAT BAY AS CONVECTIVE CELL PUSHES OVER THE AREA. MOS GUIDANCE AND ETA TIME CROSS-SECTIONS IN AGREEMENT WITH EXPECTED FROPA AND WL NOT DEVIATE FROM THEIR PERFORMANCE. MOS FROPA FOR VCT NEAR 02Z .. CRP/LRD 04Z. WRK ZONES FOLLOW... .TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT (CRP/LRD) (60% VCT) CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EARLY WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAFL POSSIBLE. LOWS IN THE LOW TO MID 50S (CRP/LRD) ..NEAR 50 VCT. SOUTH WIND NEAR 15 MPH THIS EVENING SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND GUSTY TONIGHT (CRP) .. WIND SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND GUSTY (VCT) .. NORTHWEST WIND AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND GUSTY FOR LRD. THE FORECAST NUMBERS ARE NEXT... CRP BU 053/067 048/075 055 4000 VCT BU 051/065 047/074 053 6000 LRD BU 053/070 050/076 055 4000 BML...76
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 11:39 AM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ232-233-234-247-181945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1139 AM CST TUE MAR 18 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARDS VICTORIA COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SKIDMORE TO BEEVILLE TO KARNES CITY. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO VICTORIA COUNTY BY 100 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL... AND VERY HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE RAINFALL OF THE PAST FEW DAYS...ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN VICTORIA COUNTY AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 11:42 AM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ232-233-234-247-181945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1139 AM CST TUE MAR 18 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARDS VICTORIA COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SKIDMORE TO BEEVILLE TO KARNES CITY. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO VICTORIA COUNTY BY 100 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL... AND VERY HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE RAINFALL OF THE PAST FEW DAYS...ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN VICTORIA COUNTY AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 12:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad, Refugio | 69 min |
| Mar 18, 12:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 61 min |
| Mar 18, 5:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 4 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.