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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 22, 1998Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1998, 5:36 AM CDT for Bee 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 22, 1998, 5:36 AM CDT (10:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1998, 8:35 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bee County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 00:00Z on 1998-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 735 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 00:00Z on 1998-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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 22, 2:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 1:18 AM CDTTornado WarningCRPCalhoun62 min
Aug 22, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPAransas60 min
Aug 22, 2:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPAransas3 hr
Aug 22, 3:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPRefugio3 hr
Aug 22, 4:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPRefugio64 min
Aug 22, 4:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPSan Patricio61 min
Aug 22, 5:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPRefugio3 hr
Aug 22, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPBee, San Patricio58 min
Aug 22, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPGoliad58 min
Aug 22, 10:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPLive Oak3 hr
Aug 22, 11:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPMcMullen2 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.