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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2002, 3:39 AM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 81 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
- Jul 5, 2002, 3:39 AM CDT (08:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2002, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 81 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bee County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 2421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 050839 FFWCRP TXC025-051000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 335 AM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BEE COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 500 AM CDT * AT 335 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF BEE COUNTY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH. 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.
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KCRP 050948 FFSCRP TXC025-249-297-051100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 445 AM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE THROUGH 5 AM FOR JIM WELLS...DUVAL AND BEE COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DUVAL COUNTY THROUGH 6 AM... AT 445 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NORTHWARD MOVEMENT TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE AREA. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL CONTINUE WITH RAINFALL TOTALS RANGING BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING THIS MORNING...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING. STAY TUNED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ LAMARRE
000 WGUS74 KCRP 050951 FFSCRP TXC025-131-249-297-051100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 450 AM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE THROUGH 5 AM FOR JIM WELLS...LIVE OAK AND BEE COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DUVAL COUNTY THROUGH 6 AM... AT 445 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NORTHWARD MOVEMENT TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE AREA. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL CONTINUE WITH RAINFALL TOTALS RANGING BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING THIS MORNING...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING. STAY TUNED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ LAMARRE
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 Jul 4, 8:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 8:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 830 PM CDT THU JUL 4 2002 RSM/ETA ENSEMBLES AND ETA/AVN SUGGEST THAT THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS MAY SHIFT SLIGHTLY WESTWARD OVERNIGHT. NEVERTHELESS...EXPECT TRAINING ECHOES TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS OVERNIGHT. WL ADD DUVAL AND MCMULLEN TO THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND INCREASE POPS OVER PORTIONS OF THE CWFA. .CRP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT TXZ229-230-239-240. 87
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 12:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.