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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 2, 2000Duval County, Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2000, 12:02 PM CDT for Duval County, Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 118 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 2000, 12:02 PM CDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1319 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KCRP 021708
FFWCRP
TXC131-249-273-021900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1202 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN DUVAL COUNTY IN TEXAS
  SOUTHERN JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS
  KLEBERG COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 1202 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN LOCATED GENERALLY TO THE SOUTH OF A
  BENAVIDES TO KINGSVILLE LINE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.  RAINFALL
  BETWEEN 4 AND 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN.  ISOLATED AREAS NEAR RIOS
  HAVE RECEIVED OVER 6 INCHES OF RAIN.  SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS ACROSS
  SOUTHERN JIM WELLS COUNTY REMAIN UNDER WATER.  HIGHWAY 77 SOUTHBOUND
  NEAR SOUTH CREEK IN KLEBERG COUNTY HAS WATER OVER IT AS WELL.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE....
  RIOS...
  RICARDO...
  REALITOS...
  PREMONT...
  KINGSVILLE...
  CONCEPCION...

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.

LAT...LON 2747 9878 2726 9873 2730 9746 2755 9745
          2754 9786

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 12:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLa Salle, McMullen, Webb43 min
May 2, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells, Live Oak73 min
May 2, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPMcMullen88 min
May 2, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells62 min
May 2, 7:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells66 min
May 2, 2:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells, Kleberg2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.