Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2001, 3:37 PM CDT for Duval 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, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Duval County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 312039 FFWCRP TXC131-312330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 337 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DUVAL COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 337 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN REALITOS AND CONCEPCION...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE.... RIOS... REALITOS... CONCEPCION... 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. 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 2762 9876 2740 9876 2729 9826 2762 9826
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 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 3:00 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
300 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
SHORT TERM...WITH MID LEVEL DRY AIR WORKING INTO WESTERN
ZONES...WILL REMOVE WESTERN MOST COUNTIES FROM FFA. FFA TO REMAIN IN
EFFECT ACROSS REMAINDER OF AREA THROUGH SATURDAY. AVN/ETA SHIFT
VORT MAX FURTHER EAST TONIGHT SO ORGANIZED CONVECTION SHOULD SLOWLY
DIMINISH OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. MAIN FOCUS FOR HEAVY RAIN SHOULD
SHIFT INTO THE CROSSROADS AREA IN CONJUCTION WITH SLOW SHIFT OF
850-500 THTE AXIS. FURTHER W...EXPECT CONVECTION TO BE DIURNAL IN
NATURE. PWATS STILL TO REMAIN ABOVE 2 INCHES OVER EASTERN ZONES
BEFORE DECREASING LATE IN THE WEEKEND.
.EXTENDED...LITTLE CHANGE IN PREVIOUS FORECAST. WILL CONT DIMINISH
RAIN CHANCES THROUGH THE WEEK WITH NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES
RETURNING.
MARINE...CONTINUE SCA FOR HIGH SEAS.
CRP WB 075/087 076/091 076 72653
VCT CE 074/086 074/090 076 72674
LRD EB 077/091 078/096 077 72342=
.CRP...FFA THROUGH THROUGH SATURDAY TXZ231>234...TXZ241>247
SCA GMZ250-255-270-275.
AP...72 SYN
MC...84 MESOIn the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 31, 2:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
209 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
615 AM 6 S FREER TX FLOOD
08/31/01 DUVAL ROAD WASHED OUT AT
JUNCTION OF HIGHWAYS 339
AND 16.
620 AM 4 SW ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS FM 1554 WATER UP TO HOMES.
EVACUATIONS
UNDERWAY. CR 440
PEOPLE TRAPPED IN HOMES.
635 AM PREMONT TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS WIDESPREAD FLOODING
900 AM 1 S ROBSTOWN TX FLOOD
08/31/01 NUECES HIGHWAY 77 ACCESS RD AT CR
44 IMPASSABLE.
900 AM 2 N ROBSTOWN TX FLOOD
08/31/01 NUECES CR 1889 AND CR 48 UNDER
WATER.
1050 AM 20 N ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS US 281 CLOSED FROM FM 3376
TO FM 624.
918 AM ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS LOCAL FLOODING IN MANY
PARTS OF THE CITY.
920 AM 8 S GEORGE WEST TX FLOOD
08/31/01 LIVE OAK HIGHWAY 59 WATER COVERING
ROAD.
920 AM 5 SE ANNAROSE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 LIVE OAK WATER OVER ROADWAYS AT JIM
WELLS/LIVE OAK
COUNTY BORDER.
1000 AM LOMA ALTA TX FLOOD
08/31/01 MCMULLEN OLD SAN DIEGO RD CLOSED
DUE TO BIG COW
CREEK/DEVILS WATER HOLE
CREEK MERGER. 200 YDS
WIDE.
1050 AM 2 W ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS FM 1554 CLOSED FROM FM
2507 TO SH 44.
1050 AM 2 W ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS FM 2507 CLOSED FROM SH 44
TO FM 1554.
1050 AM 5 SE ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS FM 1930 CLOSED FROM FM 665
TO FM 1352.
1050 AM 5 SE ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS SH 44 BUSINESS CLOSED FROM
FM 1352 TO MARTIN LUTHER
KING BLVD.
1000 AM 10 SE BAYSIDE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 REFUGIO FM 629 CLOSED FROM FM 136
TO FM 3037.
1000 AM SINTON TX FLOOD
08/31/01 SAN PATRICIO FM 796 CLOSED FROM SH 188
TO SH 359.
1000 AM SINTON TX FLOOD
08/31/01 SAN PATRICIO US 181 CLOSED. DETOUR TO
CITY STREETS.
1021 AM 4 NW MATHIS TX FLOOD
08/31/01 SAN PATRICIO WATER 2 FT HIGH OFF FM 441
JUST BEFORE FM 888.
1044 AM 5 W ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS HOMES FLOODED IN RANCHO
ALEGRE. BOATS BEING
USED TO EVACUATE.
1120 AM BEEVILLE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 BEE SR 202 US 59 US 181
FLOODED.
BBLocal storm report, Aug 31, 2:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1210 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
615 AM 6 S FREER TX FLOOD
08/31/01 DUVAL ROAD WASHED OUT AT
JUNCTION OF HIGHWAYS 339
AND 16.
620 AM 4 SW ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS FM 1554 WATER UP TO HOMES.
EVACUATIONS
UNDERWAY. CR 440
PEOPLE TRAPPED IN HOMES.
635 AM PREMONT TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS WIDESPREAD FLOODING
900 AM 1 S ROBSTOWN TX FLOOD
08/31/01 NUECES HIGHWAY 77 ACCESS RD AT CR
44 IMPASSABLE.
900 AM 2 N ROBSTOWN TX FLOOD
08/31/01 NUECES CR 1889 AND CR 48 UNDER
WATER.
1050 AM 20 N ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS US 281 CLOSED FROM FM 3376
TO FM 624.
918 AM ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS LOCAL FLOODING IN MANY
PARTS OF THE CITY.
920 AM 8 S GEORGE WEST TX FLOOD
08/31/01 LIVE OAK HIGHWAY 59 WATER COVERING
ROAD.
920 AM 5 SE ANNAROSE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 LIVE OAK WATER OVER ROADWAYS AT JIM
WELLS/LIVE OAK
COUNTY BORDER.
1000 AM LOMA ALTA TX FLOOD
08/31/01 MCMULLEN OLD SAN DIEGO RD CLOSED
DUE TO BIG COW
CREEK/DEVILS WATER HOLE
CREEK MERGER. 200 YDS
WIDE.
1050 AM 2 W ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS FM 1554 CLOSED FROM FM
2507 TO SH 44.
1050 AM 2 W ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS FM 2507 CLOSED FROM SH 44
TO FM 1554.
1050 AM 5 SE ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS FM 1930 CLOSED FROM FM 665
TO FM 1352.
1050 AM 5 SE ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS SH 44 BUSINESS CLOSED FROM
FM 1352 TO MARTIN LUTHER
KING BLVD.
1000 AM 10 SE BAYSIDE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 REFUGIO FM 629 CLOSED FROM FM 136
TO FM 3037.
1000 AM SINTON TX FLOOD
08/31/01 SAN PATRICIO FM 796 CLOSED FROM SH 188
TO SH 359.
1000 AM SINTON TX FLOOD
08/31/01 SAN PATRICIO US 181 CLOSED. DETOUR TO
CITY STREETS.
1021 AM 4 NW MATHIS TX FLOOD
08/31/01 SAN PATRICIO WATER 2 FT HIGH OFF FM 441
JUST BEFORE FM 888.
1044 AM 5 W ALICE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 JIM WELLS HOMES FLOODED IN RANCHO
ALEGRE. BOATS BEING
USED TO EVACUATE.
1120 AM BEEVILLE TX FLOOD
08/31/01 BEE SR 202 US 59 US 181
FLOODED.
BBThe 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, 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, 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.