Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 11, 1997, 5:50 PM CDT for Goliad County, Refugio 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 11, 1997, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Goliad County, TX, Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 112251 FFWCRP TXC175-391-120245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 550 PM CDT SAT OCT 11 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GOLIAD COUNTY...REFUGIO COUNTY AT 550 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS GOLIAD AND REFUGIO COUNTIES. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT AN ADDITIONAL 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NEAR 10 MPH. 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, 2:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 2:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 230 PM CDT SAT OCT 11 1997 INCREDIBLE FLOODING EVENT CONTINUES ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND REGION OF SOUTH TEXAS. SINCE THURSDAY DOPPLER RADAR STORM TOTAL ESTIMATES RANGE ABOUT 6 TO 8 INCHES FROM THE WILDLIFE REFUGE AREA IN ARANSAS COUNTY AND WOODSBORO AREA IN REFUGIO COUNTY...8 TO 12 INCHES IN THE LAGARTO IN LIVE OAK COUNTY...MUCH OF SAN PATRICIO COUNTY IN THE SINTON AND TAFT AREAS. PARTS OF NUECES COUNTY INCLUDING CORPUS CHRISTI...AND KLEBERG COUNTIES HAVE RECEIVED AS MUCH AS 12 TO IN EXCESS OF 15 INCHES OF RAINFALL. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL EVENTS SINCE HURRICANE BEULAH DUMPED NEARLY 30 INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND IN 1967. SATL WV IMAGERY CONTINUES TO SHOW A PLUME OF MOISTURE FLOWING FROM THE ERN PAC OCEAN ACROSS MEX INTO S TX. A CONVECTIVE BLOB WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE A TWIST IS MOVING NWD UP THE MEX CST TWDS DEEP S TX ATTM. ALSO...THE CONVECTION ASSOC. WITH T.D. OLAF IS BEING DRAWN NORTHWARD INTO THIS MOISTURE PLUME AS WELL. MODELS INDICATE COPIOUS AMS MOISTURE CONTINUING ACRS THE S TX AREA WITH UVM THRU 48 HRS. ETA DVLPS A 50 KT 85H JET ACRS S TX IN 30 HRS. ETA APRS TO WANT TO FOCUS MORE OF THE PRECIP ACRS OUR NRN COUNTIES AND PSBLY INTO THE TX HILL COUNTRY. THAT RMNS TO BE SEEN. DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE WISE TO BITE ON THIS AT THIS TIME WITH THE ABNDT AMS MSTR CONTG TO FEED INTO THE AREA AND WITH A PAC FNT APCHG FROM THE WEST LATE SUN INTO MON. FLOODING SHUD CONT ACRS CSTL BEND AND VCT AREAS THRU SUN. NWSFO EWX...PLEASE REISSUE FFA FOR SAME AREA OF OUR CWA THRU TNGT AND CONTINUE COASTAL FLOOD WARNING FROM PORT O'CONNOR TO BAFFIN BAY THRU TNGT. ALSO...SCA SHUD CONT. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP! TONIGHT...CLDY WITH A 80% CHC OF RW/TRW WITH FLOODING CRP/VCT. LRD...MOSTLY CLDY WITH A 40% CHC OF RW/TRW. SE WND 10 TO 15 MPH CRP/LRD. VCT...SE WND NR 10 MPH. SUN...CLDY WITH A NR 100% CHC OF RW/TRW CRP/VCT WITH FLOODING...50% LRD. SE WND 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTY. SUN NGT...CLDY WITH A 60% CHC OF RW/TRW CRP/VCT. LRD...MOSTLY CLDY WITH A 30% CHC OF RW/TRW. MON...CLDY WITH A 60 % CHC OF TRW/RW CRP/VCT. LRD...MOSTLY CLDY WITH 30 % CHC OF TRW/RW. CRP TE 075/085/074/085 8/+/6/4 NGP 077/085/076/085 ALI TE 075/087/073/087 8/+/6/4 LRD EE 074/089/072/089 4/5/3 VCT TE 074/084/071/084 8/+/6/4 JAC...71
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 11, 5:31 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
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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, 9:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas | 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 |
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.