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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

July 1, 2002Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2002, 2:52 AM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. 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 1, 2002, 2:52 AM CDT (07:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2002, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
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 07:54 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, 7.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2061 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KCRP 010752
FFWCRP
TXC025-011145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
252 AM CDT MON JUL 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 AM CDT

* AT 250 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN 9 MILES WEST OF BEEVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10  
  MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE INTO BEE   
  COUNTY FROM LIVE OAK COUNTY BETWEEN 3 AND 5 AM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS   
  OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. TOTAL 
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES OR MORE ARE POSSIBLE...         
  ESPECIALLY OVER WESTERN BEE COUNTY BETWEEN SKIDMORE AND MINERAL.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS. WEST ARANSAS CREEK...POESTA CREEK...LOS OLMOS 
CREEK AND DRY CREEK COULD QUICKLY COME INTO FLOOD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 12:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen4 hr
Jul 1, 4:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPLa Salle2 hr
Jul 1, 6:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPMcMullen113 min
Jul 1, 7:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPLa Salle117 min
Jul 1, 3:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPLa Salle, Live Oak, McMullen3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.