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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2003, 9:24 PM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. 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 11, 2003, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2003, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 3552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KCRP 120225 FFWCRP TXC297-120330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 924 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 915 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING NEAR OAKVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. AT 915 PM...THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED WATER GOING OVER INTERSTATE 37 AT SULPHUR CREEK NEAR OAKVILLE. AT 910 PM...LIVE OAK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED WATER OVER THE FRONTAGE ROADS NEAR SULPHUR CREEK AND BETWEEN OAKVILLE AND THREE RIVER. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... OAKVILLE... RAY POINT... THREE RIVERS... PERSONS TRAVELLING ALONG INTERSTATE 37 IN CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING OF THE ROADWAYS NEAR SULPHUR CREEK AT OAKVILLE AS THE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES FOR THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR INDICATES THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE WEAKENING AND BEGINNING TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE REGION WHICH HAS RECEIVED BETWEEN 6 AND 7 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 630 PM. 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. LAT...LON 2843 9832 2824 9822 2836 9792 2859 9808 $$ TMT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 2 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 112 min |
| Sep 12, 2:11 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Sep 12, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 58 min |
| Sep 12, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 58 min |
| Sep 12, 3:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Sep 12, 3:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Sep 12, 4:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 4:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Sep 12, 4:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Sep 12, 6:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 80 min | |
| Sep 12, 6:46 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 74 min |
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.