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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 13, 1997Refugio County, Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 13, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT for Refugio County, Victoria 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 13, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 1997, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Refugio County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 7.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRP 130704
FFWCRP
TXC391-469-131100-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
200 AM CDT MON OCT 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...REFUGIO COUNTY...VICTORIA COUNTY
 
AT 200 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL DEVELOPING ACROSS VICTORIA AND REFUGIO COUNTIES. RAINFALL
AMOUNTS OF 1.50 TO 2.50 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS
AS THEY MOVE ACROSS WOODSBORO...REFUGIO...MISSION VALLEY AND VICTORIA
THROUGH 6AM.  LOW LYING AREAS AND LOW ROADWAYS WILL FLOOD QUICKLY DUE TO
THE VERY SATURATED GROUNDS.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGH GROUND. DO NOT STAY IN
AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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 13, 1:28 AM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 1:28 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
125 AM CDT MON OCT 13 1997

SHRA/TSRA DVLPG ALG FNTL BNDRY FROM EGP-UVALDE WITH SOME SVR ALG TAIL
END.  STG WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREAT WHICH COULD BLOW WEAKLY ROOTED
TREES IN VERY MOIST SOILS.  COULD ALSO BE AN ISOLATED SUPERCELL IN
STRONGER SHEAR ENVIRONMENT ACROSS NERN ZONES AHEAD OF THE FNT.  WILL
MONITOR THIS SYSTEM CLOSELY.  TROPICAL SHOWERS ALSO DVLPG ACROSS
COASTAL PLAINS IN WAA REGION DROPPING VERY HVY RAINS 1-2 INCH PER
HOUR WHERE FFW'S ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT.  ITS GOING TO BE A BUSY
NIGHT.

WILL KEEP FFA UP FOR THIS AM UNTIL FNT PUSHES THROUGH WITH DECREASING
CLOUDINESS AND WINDY CONDITIONS THERE AFTER.  A WIND ADVISORY WILL BE
NEEDED FOR THE COASTAL BEND AND VCT AREA.  N WINDS 20-30 MPH AND
GUSTY CRP & VCT. N WINDS 15-25 MPH AND GUSTY LRD.  LATEST ETA
MAINTAINS STG 30-35KT WINDS IN THE COASTAL WATERS THROUGH TNGT...AND
GALE WARNINGS MAY BE NEEDED.

HIGH TEMPS WILL BE REALIZED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS TDY BEFORE
FROPA.  CLEAR SKIES AND MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL SETTLE TNGT AND
TUE AS RIDGE BUILDS SWD INTO W TX.  THE ETA DROPS DWPTS INTO THE
LOWER 40S BY TUE AM.  LOWS COULD PLUMET TO AVN VALUES OVER INLAND
AREAS OF THE COASTAL PLAINS IF WINDS DROP OFF DURING THE OVERNIGHT
HOURS.  WARMER TEMPS EXPECTED ALG COASTAL COUNTIES.

/CRP AND VCT/
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS AM...
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT...
.TDY...CLOUDY WITH 60% CHC OF TSRA THIS MORNING WITH LCLY HVY RAIN
AND FLOODING POSSIBLE.  DECREASING CLOUDS WITH RAIN ENDING BY NOON.
BECOMING WINDY AND COOL.  N WINDS 20-30 MPH AND GUSTY.

/LRD/
.TDY...M/C WITH 20% CHC OF SHOWERS THIS MORNING...DECREASING CLOUD
WITH RAIN ENDING.  BECMG WINDY AND COOL.  N WINDS 15-25 MPH AND
GUSTY.

PRELIMS...

CRP NU 076/056 071/052 6000
NGP NU 079/060 073/056
VCT NU 075/050 068/048 6000
LRD NU 078/054 073/052 2000

JM...075

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 1:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Live Oak	4 hr
Oct 13, 3:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	3 hr
Oct 13, 3:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Refugio	55 min
Oct 13, 4:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	San Patricio	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	3 hr
Oct 13, 5:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas	3 hr
Oct 13, 7:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Nueces	100 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.