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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2001, 8:24 AM CDT for 4 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2001, 8:24 AM CDT (13:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:25 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 1762 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 311329 FFWCRP TXC025-175-297-469-311630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 824 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BEE COUNTY IN TEXAS GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1130 AM CDT * AT 824 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ONCE AGAIN ACROSS LIVE OAK...BEE...GOLIAD AND VICTORIA COUNTIES. THIS HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER RAIN. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE.... GEORGE WEST... THREE RIVERS... BEEVILLE... TELFERNER... SCHROEDER... GOLIAD... VICTORIA... 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. LAT...LON 2858 9830 2810 9800 2872 9673 2903 9697
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, 3:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 3:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 300 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 NOT MUCH TIME THIS MORNING AS MAJOR FLOOD/RIVER FLOOD EVENT CONTINUES ACROSS MAJORITY OF THE CWFA THIS MORNING. AS S/W CONTS TO SWING EWRD THIS MORNING LRG AREA OF CONVECTION WILL ADVANCE TOWARDS THE COAST. RAINFALL FROM THURSDAY NIGHT WAS 8-10 INCHES IN MANY NORTHERN AREAS AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL OCCUR TODAY..MAINLY EASTERN SECT THIS MORNING THEN LATER THIS AFTERNOON OUT WEST. ALREADY SEEING ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS WRN TX WITH ANOTHER S/W DROPPING SE. PWATS AT 2.50+ FROM 00Z SOUNDING AND FCST TO REMAIN ABOVE 2 INCHES INTO SATURDAY THEN A SLOW DECREASE. WITH LLJ AND UPPER TROF FCST TO BE A PLAYER THROUGH TONIGHT WILL CONTINUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT. UPPER LEVEL DIFLUENCE AND GOOD MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WILL ALSO AID IN PRODUCTION OF RAINFALL. CONVECTION HEADING EAST THIS MORNING NOW SHOWING SIGNS OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH BOW FEATURE NOTED IN REFLECTIVITY DATA. DEWPTS AHEAD OF THIS LINE REMAIN IN THE UPPER 70S TO NEAR 80 THIS MORNING. TEMPS CONT TO BE HELD DOWN..DUE TO CLOUDS AND PCPN. THIS TREND WILL CONT. WINDS REMAIN SELY. MARINE...PRESS GRADIENT/LLJ STRONGER THIS MORNING THAN EXPECTED. WILL BUMP WINDS UP A NOTCH TO SCEC BAYS...SCA WATERS. LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APCHG THE COAST WILL EXIT BY MID MORNING LEAVING SUBSIDENCE IN ITS WAKE DURING THE AFTN. NXT S/W WILL MOVE IN LATER THIS AFTN WITH PRECIP CONFINED MAINLY OVER LAND AND THE BAYS. GIVEN CURRENT CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERE WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. .CRP...FFA THROUGH FRIDAY TXZ229>234...TXZ239>247 GMZ250-255-270-275...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. CRP TB 088/076 091/076 090 744 VCT TB 084/074 089/075 091 845 LRD EB 090/077 095/076 094 544 MSL..73 / KEG..70 / MB..80 / JM..75
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 31, 3:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
305 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0257 AM ALICE TX 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/31/01 JIM WELLS
0300 AM 5 N VICTORIA TX FLOOD
08/31/01 VICTORIA SPRING CREEK FLOWING 2
FEET OVER OLIVAR ROADThe 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, 1:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 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, 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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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.