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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 11, 1997, 9:56 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
- Oct 11, 1997, 9:56 AM CDT (14:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1997, 1:00 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 14:56 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, 2.9 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
- 915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 111458 FFWCRP TXC007-111800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 956 AM CDT SAT OCT 11 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...ARANSAS COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF ARANSAS COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW THAT ABOUT 2 TO 2 AND 1/2 INCHES HAD FALLEN NEAR THE LAMAR AREA WHILE 1 INCH WAS COMMON ACROSS MUCH OF THE REMAINING AREAS ACROSS NORTHERN ARANSAS COUNTY WITHIN THE LAST FEW HOURS. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ADVISE THAT NUMEROUS ROADS REMAIN FLOODED. POOLING OF WATER WILL CONTINUE AND AN ADDITIONAL 1/2 TO 1 INCH OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS WHICH WILL FURTHER AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING WHICH IS ONGOING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 1 PM CDT FOR ARANSAS COUNTY. 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.
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 11, 9:50 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 9:50 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED TRANSMIT TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 950 AM CDT SAT OCT 11 1997 KCRP 88D BASE REF EARLIER DISPLAYED A LINE OF -SHRA FM OAKVILLE TO EDROY MVNG N AT 20 MPH...BUT THIS LINE HAD ALREADY DSIPTD. SOUNDING DATA REVEALS DEEP UNI-DIRECTIONAL SLY FLOW PERSISTING FM THE SFC TO NEAR 30K FT...WHILE THE H7 WINDS HV STRENGTHENED FM 5-10 KTS 24H AGO TO 25 KTS AS OF 12Z THIS AM AHEAD OF HI AMPLITUDE WRN US UPR TROF. THE SUBTLE AND PERSISTENT LLVL CONVERGENT ZONE THAT HAD BEEN DEPICTED IN ADAP GRAPHICS ALONG THE CRP CWA THE LAST TWO DAYS HAD FINALLY WASHED OUT. FEELING IS THAT IN THE SHORT TERM THE PRIMARY THREAT OF RAFL WL BE FOCUSED N OF THE CRP CWA...HOWEVER AS THE PRES GRADIENT AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING CF RELAXES TONIGHT...ADDITIONAL HVY RAFL IS ONCE AGAIN LKLY. DO XPCT DVLPMNT OF WIDELY SCT-SCT SHRA AND A FEW TSRA GIVEN THE +1700 J/KG-1 CAPES...LI -3C AND K INDEX OF 27...BUT NOT TO THE EXTENT OF THE PAST TWO DAYS GIVEN THE LOWERING OF PWS (2.06 INCHES) AND SIGNIFICANT INCR IN THE STEERING WIND COMPONENT. WL LOWER 1ST PERIOD POPS ACROSS ALL OF THE FA. HOWEVER...WL KP FFA POSTED DUE XPCTD RAFL TONIGHT AND MON AM. GRIDDED ETA DATA NOTES THAT FROPA WL ACCOMPANIED BY SIGNIFICANT WINDS...POSSIBLY GALE CONDS OFFSHORE OR AT LEAST WINDS GUSTING TO GALE LVLS. WV IMAGERY NOTES THE INTACT PLUME OF MOISTURE FM THE SW MEXICAN PAC COAST INTO THE ERN HALF OF TX. MOISTURE AVAILABILITY WL NOT BE A PROBLEM AHEAD AND ALONG FNT. ETA TIME SXTN SHOW THAT A PERIOD OF OVR- RUNNING IS LKLY FOLLOWING FROPA GIVEN THE SW WINDS ALF...HI RHS DEPICTED AND PRESENCE OF DECENT UVVS. SEE NO NEED TO DEVIATE THE TIMING OF THE FROPA FM THE MANUAL PROGS WHICH ARE CLOSELY IN LINE WITH THE ETAS SCENARIO...APPROACHING THE NW PRTNS OF THE FA AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THROUGH THE CRP AREA AROUND SUNRISE ON MONDAY. AS FOR THE COASTAL FLOOD WATCH/WARNINGS...AFTER RECEIVING ADDITIONAL REPORTS FM ALONG THE BARRIER ISLANDS...IT IS FELT A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH OR WARNING IS NO LONGER NEEDED FOR THE CRP CWA. VEERING WINDS TO A MORE SLY DIRECTION WL NOT LEAD TO ANYMORE SIGNIFICANT COASTAL FLOODING. WUD PREFER TO DROP THE WARNING ALTOGETHER AND ISSUE A MWS FOR MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW ALONG THE BARRIER ISLANDS AT THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE. OFFSHORE WINDS IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT WL CLEAN UP THE WHOLE SITUATION ALTOGETHER...BUT WL IMPOSE VERY ROUGH SEAS OFFSHORE. ALSO...A WIND ADVSRY MAY BE REQUIRED FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES IF ENUF LLVL MOMENTUM CAN BE MIXED DOWNWARD LATER TODAY...FOR NOW WL NUDGE UP WINDS TO 20 TO 25 AND GUSTY FOR THIS AFTERNOON. MARINE INFO... OIL RIG 8 NM E OF PORT OCONNOR REPORTED...WIND SE 20 TO 30 MPH... SEAS 8-10 FT. MATAGORDA HARBOR PILOT REPORTED 12 NM OFFSHORE FM PORT OCONNOR...SE WIND 20 TO 25 MPH...SEAS 6 TO 12 FT. 1ST PERIOD UPDATE REQUESTS... CRP...PARTLY TO M/C...40% SHRA/TSRA. (NO MENTION OF ADDITIONAL FLOODING) HIGHS FM THE MID 80S COAST TO THE UPR 80S INLAND. S & SE WIND 20-25 MPH AND GUSTY. CAUTION ADVISED ON AREA LAKES. VCT...M/C...50% SHRA/TSRA. (NO MENTION OF ADDITIONAL FLOODING). S & SE WIND 15-25 MPH AND GUSTY. CAUTION ADVISED ON AREA LAKES. LRD...PARTLY TO M/C...30% SHRA/TSRA. S & SE WIND 15-20 MPH AND GUSTY. SRP...77
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 11, 4:53 AM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
445 AM CDT SAT OCT 11 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
230 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX FLOODING
10/10/97 NUECES S STAPLES ST/FM 2444 AT OSO CREEK
BRIDGE.
430 AM 5 SW BISHOP TX FLOODING
10/10/97 KLEBERG US HIGHWAY 77 NEAR KLEBERG-NUECES
COUNTY LINE.Local storm report, Oct 11, 8:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
825 AM CDT SAT OCT 11 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
230 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX FLOODING
10/10/97 NUECES S STAPLES ST/FM 2444 AT OSO
CREEK BRIDGE.
430 AM 5 SW BISHOP TX FLOODING
10/10/97 KLEBERG US HIGHWAY 77 NEAR KLEBERG-
NUECES COUNTY LINE.
650 AM 10 W ALICE TX FLOODING
JIM WELLS HIGHWAY 44 AT FM 625 FLOODED.
700 AM 5 E SAN DIEGO TX FLOODING
JIM WELLS COUNTY ROAD 147 CLOSED.
710 AM 4 SE SAN DIEGO TX FLOODING
JIM WELLS COUNTY ROAD 154 CLOSED.
710 AM 5 NE SAN DIEGO TX FLOODING
JIM WELLS COUNTY ROAD 170 CLOSED.
740 AM 4 N KINGSVILLE TX FLOODING
KLEBERG US HIGHWAY 77 BY-PASS HAS
3 INCHES OF WATER OVER ROAD.
740 AM 8 E RIVIERA TrX FLOODING
KLEBERG FM 1546 AND FM 628 CLOSED.
820 AM 2 N BISHOP TX FLOODING
NUECES FM 70 FLOODED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 5:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 6:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 7:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 8:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 10:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 11:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Refugio | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 1:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 4 hr |
| Oct 11, 5:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Refugio | 4 hr |
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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.