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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

July 28, 2000Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT for Victoria County, 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
Jul 28, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Victoria County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 2000-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1595 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
1595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-1.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KCRP 281901
FFWCRP
TXC469-282100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
200 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 158 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL VICTORIA COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT LAVACA.  THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN
  WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.  COMMUNITIES LOCATED ALONG PLACEDO CREEK COULD 
  EXPERIENCE 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.

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 Jul 28, 10:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 10:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1015 AM CDT FRI JUL 28 2000

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS MID-UPPER LEVEL CYCLONE SOUTH OF BRO WITH
TROF AXIS ALONG THE COAST. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY LENDS CREDENCE TO THE
FASTER AVN SOLUTION OF BRINGING TROF AXIS INLAND TODAY. A DEEPER
TROPOSPHERIC FLOW WILL GRADUALLY OVERSPREAD THE CWA AND PWATS SHOULD
SLOWLY INCREASE(MORE SIGNIFICANTLY ON SATURDAY). PARAMETERS ARE
ADEQUATE(THOUGH NOT AS STRONG AS YESTERDAY) FOR SEA BREEZE
CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. 12Z CRP SOUNDINGS AND MODEL SOUNDINGS
STILL INDICATE MICROBURST GUST POTENTIAL(MOSTLY 30-40KTS) AND WILL
INCLUDE ENHANCED WORDING. WET-BULB ZERO HEIGHTS ARE STILL RATHER LOW
OVER THE NORTHERN CWA WHICH STILL SUPPORTS ISOLD SVR HAIL. POCKET OF
-10C 500HPA TEMPS EVIDENT ON 12Z UPPER-AIR ANALYSES. MODEL SOUNDINGS
SHOW SOME WARMING AT THIS LEVEL DURING THE AFTERNOON. WILL USE AREAL
QUALIFIER FOR PRECIPITATION AND CONFINE TO AREAS WHERE SFC MOISTURE
CONVERGENCE IS MAXIMIZED ALONG THE SEA BREEZE. NO OTHER CHANGES
ANTICIPATED FOR THE ZFP/CWF.

.CRP...NONE.

85/BB

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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.