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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 1999, 5:00 PM CDT for 5 counties in 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 23, 1999, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1999, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1033 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 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 Aug 23, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 12:00 PM CDT, 5 hours before
TXZ229-230-239-240-240500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1200 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1999 ...TROPICAL STORM BRET CONTINUES TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AS IT SLOWLY DRIFTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS... AS TROPICAL STORM BRET MOVES ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO FOUR INCHES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. WITH THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT OF TROPICAL STORM BRET EXPECTED TO SLOW DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS...AN ADDITIONAL 10 TO 15 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE OVER THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS... ESPECIALLY ACROSS WESTERN WEBB COUNTY IN AND UP RIVER FROM THE CITY OF LAREDO. EXPECT THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL TONIGHT...AS THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM BRET MOVE JUST NORTH OF LAREDO INTO MEXICO. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS...LIFE THREATENING...SITUATION. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS...ESPECIALLY THOSE ALONG THE RIO GRANDE NEAR LAREDO...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND RIVER FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS TODAY. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING TO OCCUR. IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. RESIDENTS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IF A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. NEVER ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. A RIVER FLOOD WATCH MEANS MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE RIVERS AND STREAMS TO RISE TO CRITICAL STAGES OR INCREASE FLOODING FOR THOSE STREAMS ALREADY UNDER A SPECIFIC FLOOD WARNING. PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN THE AREAS MENTIONED ABOVE SHOULD REMAIN INFORMED OF THE LATEST WEATHER AND RIVER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION AS NECESSARY. PLEASE REFER TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI OFFICE RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION IN YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLE ADVISORIES OR WARNINGS...FROM NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...LOCAL OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Aug 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, Refugio | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999
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.