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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 1997, 9:20 AM CDT for Aransas 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
- Sep 22, 1997, 9:20 AM CDT (14:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1997, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Aransas County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 221421 FFWCRP TXC007-221715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 920 AM CDT MON SEP 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...ARANSAS COUNTY ...VERY HEAVY RAIFALL CONTINUES IN ARANSAS COUNTY... DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR REFUGIO TO PORTLAND THEN SOUTH TO THE CORPUS CHRISTI NAVAL AIR STATION. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR WAS ESTIMATING RAINFALL RATES TO NEAR FOUR INCHES DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS. AS RAINFALL CONTINUE FLOODING WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA. REPORTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THIS AREA THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL RATES TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. MOTORIST TRAVELING HIGHWAY 35 SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS FLOODING EPISODE. 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. LENZ
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 Sep 22, 2:45 AM CDT, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 2:45 AM CDT, 6 hours 35 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 240 AM CDT MON SEP 22 1997 FFA TO REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL BEND AND VCT AREAS FOR TDY. HAVE ELECTED TO KEEP WRN AREAS OUT OF THE WATCH. IR LOOP CONTINUES TO SHOW ABUNDANT MOISTURE STREAMING IN FROM THE GULF. PWS ARE RUNNING HIGH AT 2.50 INCHES. THE UPPER LOW IN THE WRN GULF IS BECMG LESS APPARENT AND MODELS LOOSE THE FEATURE ALL TOGETHER AS INVERTED TROF LINES UP ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE RIVER IN NXT 6-12HRS. THIS FEATURE MOVES SLOWLY EWD ACROSS THE AREA TDY AND STALLS OVER CRP-SAT LINE BY MIDNIGHT TNGT. THE ETA MODEL IS THE MODEL OF CHOICE AND MAINTAINS HIGH QPF ALG H85-H7 MOISTURE AXIS NXT 48HRS...WHICH INTERSECTS THE MID TX COAST BETWEEN RKP-PSX. WITH THIS SCENARIO... EXCESSIVE RAINFALL TOTALS WILL BE REALIZED ACROSS THE VCT AREA EXTENDING UP INTO CNTRL TX. 88D CURRENTLY RUNNING TROPICAL Z-R RELATIONSHIP...AND HAS ESTIMATED 4-6 INCHES IN ARANSAS AND CALHOUN COUNTIES WITH ISOLATED 8 INCHES ALG THE OUTER ISLAND. RAINFALL WILL BE ENHANCED LATE THIS AFTN WHEN H5- H3 TROF MOVES IN AND STALLS OVER THE MID COAST FROM NR CRP-SAT BY MIDNIGHT TNGT. EXCESSIVE RAINS WILL THEN OCCUR DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS MON NIGHT PERSISTING THROUGH TUE. THE WATCH WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED INTO TUE BUT ONLY INCLUDE THE VCT AREA...WE'LL SEE. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL NXT 2 DAYS WITH DENSE CLOUD COVER AND RAINY WX PATTERN. WINDS WILL BECME SE TDY AS TROF MOVES OVHD. /CRP/ ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY... .TDY...CLOUDY WITH 70% SHRA/TSRA...HVY RAFL POSSIBLE. E WIND BECMG SE NR 15 MPH THIS AFTN. .TNGT...CLOUDY WITH 50% SHRA/TSRA. LIGHT SE WINDS. .TUE...CLOUDY WITH 40% SHRA/TSRA. SE WINDS 10-15 MPH. /VCT/ ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY... .TDY...CLOUDY WITH 80% SHRA/TSRA...HVY RAFL POSSIBLE. E WINDS BECMG SE 10-15 MPH THIS AFTN. .TNGT...CLOUDY WITH 90% SHRA/TSRA...HVY RAFL POSSIBLE. E-SE WINDS NR 10 MPH. .TUE...CLOUDY WITH 90% SHRA/TSRA...HVY RAFL POSSIBLE. E-SE WINDS 10- 15 MPH. /LRD/ .TDY...CLOUDY WITH 40% SHRA/TSRA...LOCALLY HVY RAFL POSS. E WIND BECMG SE 10-15 MPH THIS AFTN. .TNGT...CLOUDY WITH 30% SHRA/TSRA. SE WINDS NR 10 MPH. .TtUE...M/C WITH 30% SHRA/TSRA. PRELIMS... CRP TT 085/077 086/076 7544 NGP TT 082/078 084/078 VCT TT 084/073 084/073 8995 LRD CE 086/074 087/075 4333 JM...075
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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.