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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2001, 3:36 PM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 114 min. 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 2, 2001, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
- 2743 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 022036 FFWCRP FFWCRP TXC355-022230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 336 PM CDT SUN SEP 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 335 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER DOWNTOWN CORPUS CHRISTI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 2778 9758 2766 9742 2767 9728 2785 9756 $$ 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 2, 2:45 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 2:45 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 245 PM CDT SUN SEP 2 2001 SHORT TERM...CONVECTION FIRING ALONG SEABREEZE BOUNDARY OVER COASTAL ZONES THIS AFTERNOON WITH RANDOM BOUNDARIES TRIGGERING SHOWERS AND STORMS FURTHER W. THINK MOST ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET BUT WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN UPPER COASTAL ZONES FOR TONIGHT. PWATS ARE FORECASTED TO LOWER SLIGHTLY OVER NEXT FEW DAYS...HOWEVER AN UPPER TROUGH IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO AREA ON TUESDAY.. WILL HAVE LOW DIURNAL POPS OVER EASTERN SECTIONS FOR MONDAY AS PLENTY OF MOISTURE...INSTABILITY AND S/W ENERGY IS STILL AVAILABLE. WILL INCREASE POPS TO CHANCE CATEGORY ON TUESDAY WITH FURTHER DIGGING OF TROUGH. EXTENDED...WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS THROUGH EXTENDED AS MEAN TROUGH PATTERN CONTINUES OVER TEXAS. SURFACE TROUGH AND SEABREEZE WILL ACT AS FOCUS FOR MAINLY DIURNAL SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. MAY SEE A LITTLE LESS ACTIVITY TOWARD THE WEEKEND AS PATTERN BECOMES MORE DIFFUSE. MARINE...LIGHT WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDWEEK AS A TROUGH REMAINS OVER THE REGION. AMPLE MOISTURE WILL COMBINE WITH THE TROUGH TO SUPPORT ISO/WSCAT ACTIVITY...AND PICK UP ON TUE/WED AS AN UPPER DISTURBANCE SWINGS INTO THE AREA. CRP BB 077/094 076/093 075 72122 VCT BB 075/094 075/092 073 72122 LRD BB 079/099 078/096 077 72112= .CRP...NONE. AP...72 SYN MC...84 MESO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 7:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.