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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 17, 1998Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 1998, 12:32 AM CDT for Webb 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: Aug 17, 1998, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 1998, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Webb County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 2783 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Aug 16, 11:55 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 11:55 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 16, 9:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
925 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    CALLIHAM                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
08/16/98   MCMULLEN                       POWER LINES DOWN AND
                                          SMALL METAL BUILDING BLOWN
                                          OVER. REPORTED BY LIzVE OAK
                                          COUNTY SHERIFF.

GARRARD/BUCHANAN

Local storm report, Aug 16, 9:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
925 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    CALLIHAM                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
08/16/98   MCMULLEN                       POWER LINES DOWN AND
                                          SMALL METAL BUILDING BLOWN
                                          OVER. REPORTED BY LIzVE OAK
                                          COUNTY SHERIFF.

GARRARD/BUCHANAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 9:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Webb	3 hr
Aug 16, 10:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval	3 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.