Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
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.
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, 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.
- 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
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 9786The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen, Webb | 43 min |
| May 2, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak | 73 min |
| May 2, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 88 min |
| May 2, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 62 min |
| May 2, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 66 min |
| May 2, 2:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.