Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2001, 1:12 AM CDT for Webb County, 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2001, 1:12 AM CDT (06:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 3264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KCRP 310612 FFWCRP FFWCRP TXC479-310915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 112 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN WEBB COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 415 AM CDT * AT 110 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MIRANDO CITY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIRANDO CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED. MOTORISTS ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 359 NEAR MIRANDO CITY SHOULD USE EXTEME CAUTION. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 2762 9901 2729 9934 2730 9884 2798 9884
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 31, 12:40 AM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 12:40 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1240 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 UPDATED ZFP TO REFLECT EXPANDED FFA AREA TO ENTIRE CWFA. MAJOR FLOOD/RIVER FLOOD EVENT WELL UNDERWAY. RAINFALL TOTALS THURSDAY NIGHT REACHED 8 TO 10 INCHES MAINLY IN NORTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY. IR SATL SHOWS TOPS CONTINUE TO COOL AS ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY DEVELOPS. KCRP SOUNDING SHOWED PWATS OF 2.6 INCHES. WITH THIS AMOUNT OF MOISTURE...LLJ...AND AN UPPER TROF SWINGING THROUGH... RAIN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MORNING AND FRIDAY. UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE AND STRONG MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WILL AID IN ADDITIONAL RAINFALL PRODUCTION. .CRP...FFA THROUGH FRIDAY TXZ229>234...TXZ239>247 GMZ250-255-270-275...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. KEG...70 SYN JM...75 MESO
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 30, 11:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1141 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
635 PM 5 SE COTULLA TX .88 INCH HAIL
08/30/01 LA SALLE
1000 PM 2N MISSION VALLEY TX FLOOD
08/30/01 VICTORIA FM236 FLOODED NEAR FM237.
CARS STALLED.
1140 PM LAREDO TX FLOOD
08/30/01 WEBB MANY STREETS FLOODED IN
CITY
JMLocal storm report, Aug 31, 12:16 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR TYPO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1141 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
635 PM 5 SE COTULLA TX .88 INCH HAIL
08/30/01 LA SALLE
1000 PM 2N MISSION VALLEY TX FLOOD
08/30/01 VICTORIA FM236 FLOODED NEAR FM237.
CARS STALLED.
1140 PM LAREDO TX FLOOD
08/30/01 WEBB MANY STREETS FLOODED IN
CITY
JMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 12:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 59 min |
| Aug 31, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak, San Patricio | 67 min |
| Aug 31, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 67 min |
| Aug 31, 3:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 117 min |
| Aug 31, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 4:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 110 min |
| Aug 31, 8:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Live Oak, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells, Live Oak, San Patricio and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun | 3 hr |
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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.