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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 14, 2000, 1:24 PM CST for 6 counties in 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
- Mar 14, 2000, 1:24 PM CST (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Aransas County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KCRP 141927 FFWCRP TXC007-249-273-355-391-409-142230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 124 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ARANSAS COUNTY IN TEXAS JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS KLEBERG COUNTY IN TEXAS NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS REFUGIO COUNTY IN TEXAS SAN PATRICIO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 122 PM CST...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH TEXAS. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF UP TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ COYNE/PATRICK
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 Mar 14, 9:45 AM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 9:45 AM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 945 AM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN AREA OF WARM FRONTOGENESIS IN NORTHERN AND EASTERN CWFA. DWPTS BEHIND WARM FRONT HAVE JUMPED TO AROUND 70. THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ESPECIALLY IN EAST AND NORTHEAST PARTS OF CWFA. WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO CURRENT SET OF ZONES...EVERYTHING IS SET TO 100 PERCENT POPS AND LOCALLY NHEAVY RAIN. KCRP WSR-88D PICKS UP BRIEF SPIN-UP MESOS/TVS'S IN GULF WHERE WARM FRONT IS LOCATED. NO CHANGES TO CURRENT MARINE PACKAGE. .CRP...NONE. 78
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 66 min |
| Mar 14, 12:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 45 min |
| Mar 14, 2:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 43 min |
| Mar 14, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 27 min |
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.