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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 15, 2001, 1:06 PM CST for 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 15, 2001, 1:06 PM CST (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2001, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KCRP 151907 FFWCRP TXC311-152200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 106 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCMULLEN COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 102 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 9 MILES WEST OF TILDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE.... CROSS... TILDEN... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 2809 9879 2809 9835 2861 9837 2861 9879
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 15, 10:00 AM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 10:00 AM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1000 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ATMOS OVER SOUTH TEXAS QUITE MOIST AND UNSTABLE THIS MORNING. 12Z CRP SOUNDING REVEALED CAPES AROUND 2000 J/KG AND PWATS 1.50 INCHES. CURRENT DOPPLER VAD WIND PROFILE CONTINUES TO SHOW STRONG VERT WIND SHEAR WHICH WILL SUPPORT ORGANIZED STORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. WET BULB ZERO VALUES ARE HIGHER TODAY VERSES YESTERDAY...THEREFORE OUR HAIL THRESHOLDS SHOULD BE A BIT HIGHER. SPC CONSIDERING A WW FOR OUR AREA...WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH THIS CLOSELY. RADAR ALREADY SHOWING CONVECTION FIRING ALONG THE MOISTURE/THERMAL AXIS EXTENDING NORTHWEST INTO THE LOW OVER THE WRN HILL COUNTRY. WV SHOWS SPOKE OF VORTICITY SWINGING THROUGH...12Z MODELS SHOW STRONG OMEGA DEVELOPING OVER MOST OF THE REGION CENTERED ALG THE MOISURE AXIS. THEREFORE HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING ARE LIKELY. CURRENT FCST LOOKS GOOD. FFA IS IN EFFECT WITH MAIN FOCUS AREAS OVER JIM WELLS AND NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY...WHERE 8-16 INCHES OF RAIN FELL YESTERDAY. HYDROLOGY...MAIN POINT OF CONCERN IS ATASCOSA RIVER AT WHITSETT AND NUECES AT THREE RIVERS. LATEST RFC FCST CALLS FOR A MAJOR FLOOD AT THREE RIVERS AROUND MIDDAY SATURDAY. NO CHANGES TO CURRENT FCST PACKAGE. 75/71 .CRP...FFA ALL ZONES TXZ229>234-239>247.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 15, 10:30 AM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-160300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1030 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ...SLIGHT THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE COASTAL BEND THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. BECAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE AND THE WIND SHEAR IS STRONG...A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST CONCERN FOR TODAY HOWEVER IS FLOODING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP OVER THE SAME AREAS BRINGING A THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE LIKELY...MAINLY OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Nov 15, 12:24 PM CST, 42 minutes before
TXZ230>234-243>247-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1224 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ARANSAS...BEE...LIVE OAK... NUECES...CALHOUN...REFUGIO...VICTORIA...MCMULLEN...SAN PATRICIO... AND GOLIAD COUNTIES. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE AREA IS CAUSING A VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TODAY. IN ADDITION TO POSSIBLE TORNADOS...PERSONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LARGE HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WITH THE SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND WARNINGS...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/CRP
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, 9:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 3 hr |
| 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, 1:40 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.