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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2001, 11:20 PM CDT for 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2001, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Victoria County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 3264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 310419 FFWCRP TXC469-310715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1120 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 215 AM CDT * AT 1115 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER NORTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY FROM MISSION VALLEY TO JUST NORTH OF VICTORIA. THE RAIN CONTINUES TO REDEVELOP OVER THE SAME AREAS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW 4 TO 8 INCHES HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS...AND AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS...MAKING FOR A DANGEROUS FLOOD SITUATION. WILLOW CREEK...SPRING CREEK AND GARCITAS CREEKS MAY BE FLOODED. IF YOU LIVE NEAR THESE CREEKS AND THE WATER BEGINS RISING...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH THE FLOODED ROADS. MANY CARS HAVE BEEN FLOODED ALREADY...YOU MAY LOSE YOUR LIFE. LAT...LON 2899 9733 2882 9716 2886 9653 2919 9660
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 Aug 30, 7:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 7:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
730 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
UPDATED ZFP TO REFLECT EXPANDED FFA AREA. EXPANDED FFA TO TAKE IN
COUNTIES NEAR TRAIN ECHO AREA...NORTHERN WEBB...LA
SALLE...MCMULLEN...LIVE OAK. THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
IN THIS AREA HAS BEEN STATIONARY FOR THE LAST FEW HOURS. 3 HOUR
RAIN TOTALS ARE FROM 3 TO 4 INCHES. ADD EXPECTED RAIN TONIGHT AND
TOMORROW TO THIS AREA...FFG VALUES WILL BE APPROACHED OR EXCEEDED.
ALSO UPDATED NE CWFA IN FFA TO CATEGORICAL POPS TONIGHT.
DEEP LAYER MOISTURE ALONG WITH UPR LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE
OUR RAIN PERIOD. PER H20 VAPOR...TROF DIGGING INTO TX EXPECTED TO
ENHANCE CONVECTION. ALL THIS PLUS NOCTURNAL LLJ SHOULD KEEP
ACTIVITY GOING THIS EVENING.
PREVIOUS PRELIMS...
CRP TT 075/088 076/091 076 72563
VCT TT 074/088 075/091 075 72573
LRD EB 077/094 077/098 076 72242
.CRP...FFA THROUGH FRIDAY TXZ229>234...TXZ239...TXZ245>247
GMZ250-255-270-275...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY.
KEG...70 SYN
JM...75 MESOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 12:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 59 min |
| Aug 31, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak, San Patricio | 67 min |
| Aug 31, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 67 min |
| Aug 31, 3:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 117 min |
| Aug 31, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 4:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 110 min |
| Aug 31, 8:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Live Oak, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells, Live Oak, San Patricio and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun | 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.