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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2001, 12:35 AM CDT for La Salle County, Texas. It was in force for 85 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 4, 2001, 12:35 AM CDT (05:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County La Salle County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 2619 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 8.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KCRP 040538 FFWCRP TXC283-040700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1235 AM CDT TUE SEP 4 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LA SALLE COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 1235 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER COTULLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE.... WOODWARD... MILLET... LOS ANGELES... COTULLA... ARTESIA WELLS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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 2861 9938 2808 9936 2809 9882 2862 9883 BB
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 3, 9:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 9:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 915 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2001 KEWX RADAR SHOWING OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WELL AHEAD OF CONVECTION WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE MOVED FAR ENOUGH AHEAD TO BEGIN TO CHOKE OFF INFLOW. STILL NEED TO WATCH AS POTENTIAL TO GET INTO NORTHERN CWFA STILL PRESENT. ANOTHER BAND OF STRONGER CONVECTION MOVING THROUGH KDRT WHICH CAUSED GUSTS OVER 50 MPH. THIS ONE REALLY NEEDS TO BE WATCHED AS THIS COULD GET INTO RIO GRANDE PLAINS AFTER MIDNIGHT AND OTHER PORTIONS OF THE CWFA LATE...BUT AT LEAST GROUND CAN TAKE MORE MOISTURE IN THAT AREA (TO SOME EXTENT). WILL HOLD OFF ON ISSUING FFA AS STILL SEVERAL FACTORS WHICH MAKE THINGS QUESTIONABLE AND DO NOT WANT TO SADDLE MID SHIFT SHOULD THEY FEEL IT IS NOT NECESSARY. HOWEVER...WILL FRESHEN UP SPS TO HIGHLIGHT POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING. ALL IN ALL...WILL HOLD OFF ON ISSUING ZFP UPDATE SINCE AFORMENTIONED CONVECTION CAN STILL MOVE INTO CWFA. COASTAL FORECAST BORDERLINE OK WITH RESPECT TO WINDS...BUT WILL MONITOR TO POSSIBLY KICK UP WINDS. .CRP...RIVER FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-243>247 THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 86/GW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 9:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-041015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 918 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2001 ...MORE HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE IN SOUTH TEXAS THIS WEEK... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...AS WELL AS THE EDWARDS PLATEAU MONDAY EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD HOLD TOGETHER THROUGH THE NIGHTTIME HOURS...RESULTING IN ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1/2 TO 1 INCH ARE POSSIBLE WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN THE STRONGER STORMS. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT THE GREATEST THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT WILL BE OVER LASALLE... MCMULLEN...LIVE OAK...AND POSSIBLY BEE COUNTY. ALSO...AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP OVER SOUTH TEXAS TUESDAY AND REMAIN IN PLACE AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS. THIS SYSTEM WILL PULL IN MORE GULF MOISTURE WHICH COULD CAUSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA. AT THIS TIME...IT LOOKS LIKE THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN WILL BE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. BECAUSE THE GROUND IS SATURATED OVER MOST OF THE COASTAL BEND AND CROSSROADS AREA...ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF CAUSING FLASH FLOODING. AREA RIVERS COULD ALSO EXPERIENCE ANOTHER FLOOD BY THE END OF THE WEEK. A RIVER FLOOD WATCH IS ALREADY IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH TEXAS...AS MANY RIVERS STILL REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE THE ALREADY SWOLLEN RIVERS. SINCE THE EXACT LOCATION AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME...RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THE WEATHER AND LATEST FORECASTS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A FLASH FLOOD WATCH OR FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER EVENT...STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/CRP GW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 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.