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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 1998, 11:29 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
- Sep 11, 1998, 11:29 AM CDT (16:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 1998, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bee County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:31 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 (KNGP), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 11, 9:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 9:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 1:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 9:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.