Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 14, 2001, 9:35 PM CST for Live Oak County, McMullen 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
- Nov 14, 2001, 9:35 PM CST (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2001, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 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 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2654 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KCRP 150336 FFWCRP TXC297-311-150630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 935 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS NORTHEASTERN MCMULLEN COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1230 AM CST * AT 930 PM CST...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING ON HIGHWAY 72 IN MCMULLEN COUNTY AND NEAR WHITSETT IN LIVE OAK COUNTY. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER THESE AREAS AND WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEAST THROUGH 11 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE.... CALLIHAM... CHOKE CANYON... NELL... WHITSETT... 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 2853 9854 2840 9840 2876 9791 2895 9813
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KCRP 150523 FFSCRP TXC297-311-150630- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1125 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN LIVE OAK AND MCMULLEN UNTIL 1230 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS NORTHEASTERN MCMULLEN COUNTY AND INTO NORTHWESTERN LIVE OAK COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH THE DOPPLER ESTIMATING OVER 8 INCHES IN SOME LOCATIONS...DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS. DANGEROUS FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON HIGHWAY 99 AND HIGHWAY 16 IN MCMULLEN COUNTY AND ALONG HIGHWAY 99 TO THE JUST SOUTHWEST OF WHITSETT IN LIVE OAK COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO THREE INCHES IS POSSIBLE...BEFORE THE STORM DISSIPATES AND MOVES AWAY FROM THE AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE ALL THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/CRP $$ LENZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 60 min |
| Nov 14, 6:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Nov 14, 7:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 56 min |
| Nov 14, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 51 min |
| Nov 14, 7:47 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 3 hr |
| Nov 14, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 42 min |
| Nov 14, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 56 min |
| Nov 15, 11:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 45 min |
| Nov 15, 12:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 39 min |
| Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 59 min | |
| Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 59 min | |
| Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 59 min | |
| Nov 15, 1:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | McMullen | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 1:40 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 65 min | |
| Nov 15, 1:40 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 65 min | |
| Nov 15, 1:40 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 65 min | |
| Nov 15, 2:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 31 min |
| Nov 15, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 66 min |
| Nov 15, 3:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 62 min |
| Nov 15, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee | 37 min |
| Nov 15, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee | 30 min |
| Nov 15, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad | 30 min |
| Nov 15, 5:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee | 27 min |
| Nov 15, 5:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 5:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval | 33 min |
| Nov 15, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 5:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 65 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.