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Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 2002, 7:17 PM CDT for Duval 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2002, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Duval County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 3776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KCRP 200017
FFWCRP
TXC131-200315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
714 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DUVAL COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 707 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODIING OVER
SOUTH CENTRAL DUVAL COUNTY...OR 2 MILES WEST OF BENAVIDES...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. DUVAL SHERRIFFS OFFICE REPORTED WATER
OVER FM 2295.
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 2756 9840 2746 9857 2628 9788 2653 9747
2728 9824The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 36 min |
| Sep 19, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 9:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 55 min | |
| Sep 19, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 61 min | |
| Sep 19, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Refugio | 25 min |
| Sep 19, 10:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Refugio, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 33 days |
| Sep 19, 10:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 60 min | |
| Sep 19, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 3 hr | |
| Sep 19, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 61 min |
| Sep 19, 11:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 113 min |
| Sep 20, 12:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr |
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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.