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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1998, 11:32 AM CDT for McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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, 11:32 AM CDT (16:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1998, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County McMullen County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 221630 FFWCRP TXC311-221900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1132 AM CDT SAT AUG 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MCMULLEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 1126 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN TILDEN AND CROSS...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN TILDEN AND CROSS. DUE TO THE ONGOING HEAVY RAIN THERE WILL LIKELY BE FLASH FLOODING BETWEEN THE COMMUNITIES OF TILDEN AND CROSS. DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST NFLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
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, 9:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 9:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 930 AM CDT SAT AUG 22 1998 PER TPC DISCUSSION THIS AM...TROPICAL STORM WARNING IN THE PROCESS OF BEING DROPPED. MAIN CONCERNS CONTINUE TO BE FLOODING/FLASH FLOODING FROM LINGERING RAINS. ALSO AM CONCERNED ABOUT SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT FROM WRAP AROUND FROM REMINANTS OF CHARLIE THIS AFTERNOON. PRESENT THINKING IS TO LEAVE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN PLACE. WINDS WILL BE TRICKY WITH ERN CWA EASTERLY AND WRN CWA SOUTWEST/NORTHWEST...BUT CURRENT FCST HANDLES THIS. UNLESS THERE IS A BREAK IN THE CLOUDS THIS AFTN... MAX TEMPS WILL STAY BELOW 90 WHICH IS ABOUT THE ONLY THING MOS IS HANDLING OUT OF LAST NIGHTS MODEL RUNS. .78
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 1:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 62 min |
| Aug 22, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas | 60 min |
| Aug 22, 2:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio | 64 min |
| Aug 22, 4:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 61 min |
| Aug 22, 5:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 5:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, San Patricio | 58 min |
| Aug 22, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 58 min |
| Aug 22, 10:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 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.