Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 14, 1998, 2:32 AM CST for Bee County, 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
- Nov 14, 1998, 2:32 AM CST (08:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 1998, 6:30 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 140833 FFWCRP TXC025-175-141230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 232 AM CST SAT NOV 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BEE IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS GOLIAD IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 630 AM CST * AT 225 AM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NORTH OF WEESATCHE TO GOLIAD TO SKIDMORE AND TYNAN... MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH. * A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING TO THE SOUTHWEST WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH BEE AND GOLIAD COUNTIES THROUGH 4 AM WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS GREATER THAN 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. THIS RAIN WILL FALL OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS RESULTING IN FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED... ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD2 WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW MUCH WATER IS ON ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. TP/GW
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 Nov 14, 2:15 AM CST, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 2:15 AM CST, 17 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 215 AM CST SAT NOV 14 1998 UPR LVL LOW MOVG ACRS TX AND ASSOCIATED ENERGY AHD OF IT MOVG ACRS CWA ATTM. EXPECT MOST OF THE RAIN TO END W TO E TDA WITH ALL GONE AOB NOON. THEN HI PRES BUILDS IN AND WX SHOULD BE MORE TRANQUIL. FOR NOW...SUGGEST KEEPING FFA FOR BEE...GOLIAD...CALHOUN... VICTORIA...REFUGIO AND ARANSAS CNTYS TDY AND WATCH CAN LIKELY BE DROPPED FOR THIS AFTN. AREAS STILL REPORTING SOME FLOOD PROBLEMS AND LIKELY RAINFALL HEADING TWD THEM NOW WILL AGGRAVATE AREA...FFWS WILL LIKELY EXTEND TIL EARLY MORNING HRS. NEW MRF DATA NOT INTO AWIPS YET...SO GENERALLY EXPECT TO MAKE LTL CHANGES ATTM. PRELIMS... CRP EB 068/056 076/057 078 3-00 NGP 070/060 075/062 076 ALI 071/055 076/056 078 VCT TB 066/054 075/055 077 5-00 LRD BU 070/055 076/057 078 2000 .CRP...FFA FOR BEE..GOLIAD...CALHOUN...VICTORIA...REFUGIO AND ARANSAS CNTYS TDY. SCA GMZ270-275. 86/GW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 4 hr |
| Nov 14, 6:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Nov 14, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, 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.