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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 10, 1997, 2:43 AM CDT for San Patricio 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
- Oct 10, 1997, 2:43 AM CDT (07:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 1997, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Patricio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 100746 FFWCRP TXC409-100945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 243 AM CDT FRI OCT 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SAN PATRICIO COUNTY AT 240 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN NUECES COUNTY AND CORPUS CHRISTI BAY...MOVING NORTHWARD INTO SAN PATRICIO COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HIGHER TOTALS ARE LIKELY DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. THIS RAINFALL IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS RECORDED ON THURSDAY WILL CAUSE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FLOODING AS THE GROUND IS COMPLETELY SATURATED. MAJOR FLOODING OF STREETS...ROADWAYS... UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED. TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED DURING 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. STA2Y TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 11:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 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, 1:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 4 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.