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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

September 14, 1998Calhoun County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 1998, 6:48 PM CDT for Calhoun 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 14, 1998, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 1998, 9:50 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Calhoun County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 12:00Z on 1998-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1371 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 12:00Z on 1998-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
1371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.