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Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 2002, 10:02 PM CDT for Bee County, Refugio County, San Patricio 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2002, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bee County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 200302 FFWCRP TXC025-391-409-200600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 958 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BEE COUNTY IN TEXAS REFUGIO COUNTY IN TEXAS SAN PATRICIO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 951 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM REFUGIO TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF TYNAN...TO MATHIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS. 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. 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.
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 Sep 19, 9:20 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 9:20 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 920 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002 ACTIVE BURST OF CONVECTION THIS EVENING AHEAD OF THE SFC TROF. EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONTINUE ALONG THE COAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT BEFORE FINALLY MOVING OFFSHORE. CELL MERGERS OVER KENEDY COUNTY COULD ROTATE UP THE COAST INTO EASTERN NUECES COUNTY...BRINGING HEAVY RAIN...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING. WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH THIS VERY CLOSELY. WILL DROP POPS BEHIND THE TROF. 9PM MSAS ANALYSIS SHOWS THE COLD FRONT ALONG A LINE FROM EAGLE PASS TO AUSTIN LINE. 01Z RUC STILL BRINGS THE COLD FRONT TO THE COAST BEFORE SUNRISE. DWPTS ARE IN THE 50S BEHIND THE FRONT. MARINE...CWF IS IN GOOD SHAPE. MAINLY A SHORT TERM EVENT RIGHT NOW WITH CONVECTION MOVING OFF THE COAST. WILL HANDLE THIS WITH SPECIAL MARINE WARNINGS. .CRP...NONE 75/81
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 3 hr |
| 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, 10:10 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 |
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.