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Flash Flood Warning 97, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 13, 1997, 3:28 AM CDT for Jim Wells 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 13, 1997, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 1997, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Wells County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:31 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 130828 FFWCRP TXC249-131100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 328 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 COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...JIM WELLS COUNTY AT 325 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER JIM WELLS COUNTY FROM PREMONT TO ALICE TO LAGARTO. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHER DUVAL COUNTY WHICH WILL MOVE OVER SOUTHERN JIM WELLS COUNTY THROUGH 5AM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1-2 INCHES HAS ALREADY OCCURED OVER THE COUNTY SINCE 2AM AND AN ADDITIONAL 1-2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 5AM. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND LOW ROADWAYS IS POSSIBLE EXPECIALLY OVER AREAS ALREADY SUBJECT TO FLOODING THE PAST FEW DAYS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDERb 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, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 1:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 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...DECREASI NG 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, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio, Victoria | 4 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
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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.