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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 1, 2001, 4:38 PM CDT for Victoria 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
- Sep 1, 2001, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 012140 FFWCRP TXC469-020045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 438 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 436 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER TELFERNER...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF VICTORIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2896 9683 2887 9702 2861 9693 2872 9667 $$ COYNE
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 Sep 1, 10:30 AM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 10:30 AM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1030 AM CDT SAT SEP 1 2001 12Z CRP SOUNDING AND KCRP VWP ARE SHOWING W/SW LOW LEVEL FLOW AS SFC TROF REMAINS ALONG THE COAST. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND INSOLATION MAY INITIATE CONVECTION ON RESIDUAL BOURADRIES OVER WESTERN ZONES. ANY ACTIVITY IN W AND CENT PARTS OF FA SHOULD BE SHORT-LIVED...BUT ALONG THE COAST THERE IS SOME POTENTIAL FOR TRAINING. MAY LOWER POPS SOME IN THE EASTERN ZONES...OTHERWISE NO SIGINIFICANT CHANGES. NO UPDATES TO MARINE ATM. AP...72 GW...86 HYDRO .CRP...FFA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON ... TXZ231>234... TXZ241>247
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 119 min |
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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.