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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 18, 1998, 2:07 PM CDT for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
- Oct 18, 1998, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 2494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 Oct 18, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1000 AM CDT SUN OCT 18 1998 WILL KEEP SHORT DUE TO POTENTIAL FLOOD PROBLEMS AND ON GOING FFA. KCRP 88D IS SHOWING TRAIN ECHO FROM ALI TO VCT THAT WILL BECOME AREA OF CONCERN BY EARLY AFTERNOON. WILL KEEP PREVIOUS FCST GOING WITH LITTLE CHANGE. HOPEFULLY IF THINGS SETTLE DOWN...AND THEY PROBABLY WILL NOT...WILL HAVE MORE TIME TO REVIEW DATA FOR AFTERNOON PACKAGE. 78
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 11:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe | 4 hr |
| Oct 17, 11:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Comal | 4 hr |
| Oct 18, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 95 min |
| Oct 18, 7:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 90 min |
| Oct 18, 10:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Oct 18, 10:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio | 4 hr |
| Oct 18, 12:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg | 3 hr |
| Oct 18, 12:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 3 hr |
| Oct 18, 2:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 4 hr |
| Oct 18, 2:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Oct 18, 2:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 4 hr |
| Oct 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 4 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.