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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 22, 1999Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1999, 9:26 PM CDT for Kleberg County, Nueces 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
Aug 22, 1999, 9:26 PM CDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1999, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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 (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 00:00Z on 1999-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 375 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 00:00Z on 1999-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
375 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.2

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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 22, 8:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 8:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPJim Wells26 min
Aug 22, 9:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPSan Patricio4 hr
Aug 23, 1:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPAransas, San Patricio4 hr
Aug 23, 1:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg, Nueces4 hr
Aug 23, 1:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Live Oak, Refugio4 hr
Aug 23, 1:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPJim Wells4 hr
Aug 23, 6:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPAransas, San Patricio2 hr
Aug 23, 6:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPNueces2 hr
Aug 23, 7:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPRefugio4 hr
Aug 23, 7:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Live Oak4 hr
Aug 23, 8:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPAransas, Nueces, San Patricio3 hr
Aug 23, 1:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPAransas, Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio and 1 more4 hr
Aug 23, 1:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg4 hr
Aug 23, 2:47 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPNueces43 min
Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPJim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, San Patricio2 hr
Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPAransas, Refugio2 hr
Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee2 hr
Aug 23, 5:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPLa Salle, Webb4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.