Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Issued

Nov 15, 2001, 11:29 PM CST (05:29 UTC)

Expired

Nov 16, 2001, 1:15 AM CST

In force

106 min

Issued by

NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Goliad County, TX

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 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.

000 
WGUS54 KCRP 160530
FFWCRP
TXC175-160830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1129 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 230 AM CST

* AT 1124 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN 12 MILES SOUTH OF BERCLAIR...OR ABOUT 25 MILES     
  SOUTHWEST OF REFUGIO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  ADDITIONAL 
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES...WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER          
  AMOUNTS...ARE STILL POSSIBLE BEFORE THESE SHOWERS AND              
  THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH. 

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.

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.

$$

GW

000 
WGUS74 KCRP 160617
FFSCRP
TXC025-175-297-160830-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1213 AM CST FRI NOV 16 2001

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BEE COUNTY UNTIL 115 
AM...GOLIAD COUNTY UNTIL 230 AM...AND LIVE OAK COUNTY UNTIL 130 AM...

SCATTERED HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER THE OVER PORTIONS OF 
SOUTHERN BEE COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN LIVE OAK COUNTY...AND EXTREME 
SOUTHEASTERN GOLIAD COUNTY.  THESE STORMS HAVE MOVING TO THE 
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH...AND ARE SLOWLY DIMINISHING IN INTENSITY.  

THE LIVE OAK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED WATER COVERING THE ROAD 
2 MILES SOUTH OF OAKVILLE...WITH SOME OTHER ROADS WITH RUNNING WATER 
OVER THEM.  

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST FLOODING INFORMATION.

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.

$$

GW

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

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.