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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

November 14, 2001Jim Wells County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 14, 2001, 3:20 PM CST for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 14, 2001, 3:20 PM CST (21:20 UTC)
Expired: Nov 14, 2001, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Jim Wells County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1072 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KCRP 142121
FFWCRP
TXC249-142315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
320 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 306 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER BEN BOLT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF      
  ALICE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES PER   
  HOUR WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWES OVER 4      
  INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE ALICE AREA IN THE PAST FEW HOURS.

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.

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 Nov 14, 2:30 PM CST, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 2:30 PM CST, 50 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
230 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001

SHORT TERM...PIECES OF ENERGY FROM UPPER LOW OVER SW NM WILL
CONTINUE TO AFFECT SOUTH TEXAS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.
LOW SHOWS SOME SIGNS OF SHIFTING NORTH ON FRIDAY AS GOOD SPOKE
OF ENERGY ROTATES AROUND THE SYSTEM.  WILL HAVE SCATTERED POPS
THROUGH FRIDAY...HIGHEST IN THE WESTERN ZONES AND DURING THE DAY.
RELATIVELY LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED IN LOW LEVEL FEATURES WITH
BROAD SURFACE LOW PRESSURE IN NORTHERN MEXICO AND A LARGE HIGH OVER
THE EASTERN U.S.  MODERATE E/SE FLOW SHOULD CONTINUE.

LONG TERM...ALTHOUGH UPPER LOW WILL LIFT FURTHER NORTH ON
FRIDAY...PIECES OF ENERGY FROM THIS SYSTEM MAY STILL TRIGGER
CONVECTION...ESPECIALLY OVER THE WESTERN ZONES WHERE RICH THTE AIR
LINGERS.  THEREFORE...WL MENTION SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS/STORMS
SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY.   WILL KEEP TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY DRY FOR
NOW...BUT MRF IS STILL HANGING ONTO SOME MOISTURE OUT WEST.

MARINE...ONSHORE FLOW WL CONTINUE TO BRING LL MOISTURE INTO THE
AREA. EXPECT MAINLY ISOLATED SHOWERS OVER THE BAYS AND OFFSHORE.
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SUGGEST A SPEED MAX EJECTING NORTHEASTWARD OUT
OF OLD MEXICO. MAX WINDS WILL REMAIN NEAR THE SCEC RANGE. WILL KEEP
SEAS ABOUT THE SAME.

CRP TE 067/077 064/074 063 72353
VCT TE 063/076 062/074 064 72353
LRD TE 064/079 064/076 063 72353=

AP...72 SYN
DW...71 MESO

.CRP...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 14, 1:55 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
155 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0146 PM    ALICE                     TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/14/01   JIM WELLS

0153 PM    ALICE                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
11/14/01   JIM WELLS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 1:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	53 min
Nov 14, 1:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	McMullen	41 min
Nov 14, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, San Patricio	41 min
Nov 14, 2:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	McMullen	23 min
Nov 14, 3:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	56 min
Nov 14, 4:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg	44 min
Nov 14, 5:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg	3 hr
Nov 14, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg	47 min
Nov 14, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells	58 min
Nov 14, 5:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Nueces	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.