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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 11, 1997Goliad County, Refugio County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-10-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 915 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-10-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 11, 1:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPNueces4 hr
Oct 11, 2:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg4 hr
Oct 11, 5:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPJim Wells3 hr
Oct 11, 6:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPAransas3 hr
Oct 11, 7:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg, Nueces4 hr
Oct 11, 8:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPSan Patricio3 hr
Oct 11, 9:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPAransas3 hr
Oct 11, 10:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPJim Wells4 hr
Oct 11, 11:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg, Nueces, San Patricio4 hr
Oct 11, 11:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPNueces, San Patricio4 hr
Oct 11, 11:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg4 hr
Oct 11, 12:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Refugio4 hr
Oct 11, 12:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPCalhoun4 hr
Oct 11, 1:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPGoliad4 hr
Oct 11, 2:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPVictoria4 hr
Oct 11, 2:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPJim Wells, Live Oak4 hr
Oct 11, 2:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPNueces, San Patricio4 hr
Oct 11, 2:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg4 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.