Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2001, 12:11 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Goliad County, 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2001, 12:11 PM CDT (17:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2001, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:11 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 2453 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 051712 FFWCRP TXC057-175-469-052015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1211 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN TEXAS GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 1209 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA FROM NEAR GOLIAD TO VICTORIA TO PORT LAVACA. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH...WHILE CONTINUING TO REDEVELOP OVER THE SAME AREAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS WHICH COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE.... WEESATCHE... VICTORIA... TELFERNER... SCHROEDER... PORT LAVACA... PLACEDO... 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.
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 5, 10:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 10:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1035 AM CDT WED SEP 5 2001 12Z CRP SOUNDING CONTS TO INDICATE AMPLE MOISTURE AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. MODELS SHOW SFC AND UPPER LEVEL LOW DRIFTING N TODAY WITH RELATIVELY DRIER MID/UPPER LEVEL AIRMASS MOVING IN. AGREE WITH MID SHIFT THAT BEST PRECIP CHANCES WILL SHIFT N AND W THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WV SAT SHOWS DRIER MID/UPPER LEVEL AIRMASS ROTATING IN FROM THE WEST AROUND UPPER LOW LOCATED OVER CENTRAL TX. FEEL COMBINATION OF A 50 KNOT UPPER LEV JET NOSING IN ACROSS WEST TX...BLY FORCING/SFC CONV AND MID LEVEL DRYING...WILL PRODUCE STRONG TSRAS WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF FA AND...TO A LESSER DEGREE...NRN ZONES LATER IN THE AFTERNOON. WITH SATURATED GROUNDS...WILL NOT TAKE MUCH TO FLOOD. CURRENT ZONES ON TRACK AND WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES ATTM. MARINE FCST ALSO LOOKS GOOD. .CRP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-239>247 THROUGH THIS EVENING. RIVER FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-243>247 THROUGH TONIGHT. 81/TE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 1:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Goliad, Victoria | 80 min |
| Sep 5, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 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.