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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 10, 1997, 1:56 AM CDT for Nueces 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
- Oct 10, 1997, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 1997, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nueces County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 1034 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 100658 FFWCRP TXC355-101100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 156 AM CDT FRI OCT 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NUECES COUNTY AT 155 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI EXTENDING TO THE SOUTHEAST ACROSS FLOUR BLUFF...PADRE ISLAND TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORT ARANSAS. MOVEMENT OF THE AREA IS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL BRING REPEATED ROUNDS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN NUECES COUNTY DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FLOODING SINCE THE GROUND IS COMPLETELY SATURATED FROM VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ON THURSDAY. MAJOR FLOODING OF STREETS...UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER I0NFORMATION.
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 Oct 9, 11:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 11:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1145 PM CDT THU OCT 9 1997 STRONG PERISTENT E WINDS HAVE BEEN GUSTING OVER 30 KNOTS FOR THE PAST FEW HRS. HV DECIDED TO ISSUE A WIND ADVISORY FOR REST OF TONIGHT FOR IMMEDIATE COASTAL COUNTIES...ARANSAS...CALHOUN...SAN PATRICIO AND NUECES. AP...72
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 2 hr |
| Oct 10, 4:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas | 3 hr |
| Oct 10, 5:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Oct 10, 5:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 4 hr |
| Oct 10, 6:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg | 3 hr |
| Oct 10, 7:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 4 hr |
| Oct 10, 8:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 4 hr |
| Oct 10, 9:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Oct 10, 11:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 4 hr |
| Oct 10, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio | 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.