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Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

November 20, 2004Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 20, 2004, 9:49 PM CST for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 116 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: Nov 20, 2004, 9:49 PM CST (03:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 20, 2004, 11:45 PM CST
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 9.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KCRP 210359
FFWCRP
TXC469-210545-
/X.NEW.KCRP.FF.W.0007.041121T0349Z-041121T0545Z/
/0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
949 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1145 PM CST

* AT 945 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG 
AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM NURSERY TO THE NORTH SIDE OF VICTORIA TO 
INEZ. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES WIDESPREAD 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
FALLEN IN A BAND FROM MISSION VALLEY TO VICTORIA TO TELFERNER TO 
INEZ...WITH ISOLATED POCKETS OF 6 TO 8 INCHES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST 
SIDE IF VICTORIA. THE VICTORIA REGIONAL AIRPORT HAS RECORDED 6.7 
INCHES OF RAINFALL THIS EVENING WITH THESE STORMS.

AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND 
NORTH OF A LINE FROM NURSERY TO INEZ AS THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS 
DRIFT NORTHEAST DURING THE NEXT 2 HOURS.

* WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS OCCURRING ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN 
VICTORIA COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF VICTORIA...WITH MANY ROADS 
FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE AND SEVERAL VEHICLE RESCUES TAKING PLACE. 
RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO REMAIN AT HOME AND OFF ROADWAYS TONIGHT...AS 
TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED UNTIL FLOOD WATERS RECEDE.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS HEAVY RAINFALL IS CAUSING FLOODING OF 
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG 
THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 2888 9723 2911 9698 2903 9684 2884 9671
      2875 9672 2871 9704 2879 9716

$$

JR

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 Nov 20, 3:50 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 20, 3:50 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
350 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT AND SUNDAY)...WARM FRONT HAS GRADUALLY SHIFTED
NORTH OF AREA AND NOW LIES FROM NEAR GALVESTON TO SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
COTULLA AND UVALDE. SCATTERED SHOWERS PERSIST IN MOISTURE
CONVERGENCE ASSOC W/ A TROUGH EXTENDING NEAR BEEVILLE TO KINGSVILLE
LINE...POSSIBLY AIDED BY SOME WEAK MID-UPR ENERGY. EXPECT THIS
ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTHEAST AND WEAKEN AFTER
SUNSET...ALTHOUGH COULD SEE A FEW SHOWERS MOVING ONSHORE LATER
TONIGHT ACROSS NERN COASTAL BEND. WILL SHOW SCT POPS IN FAR NE
TONIGHT W/ ISOLD/SLT CHC POPS ELSEWHERE. WILL SEE SOME LOW STRATUS
AND FOG ESP INLAND LATE TONIGHT GIVEN MOIST LOW LEVELS AND
DECOUPLING WINDS. CURRENT DEWPOINT READINGS AND EXPECTED CLOUD COVER
SUGGEST LEANING ON THE WARM SIDE OF GUIDANCE FOR LOWS TONIGHT.

ON SUNDAY BEST MOISTURE WILL SHIFT INTO NRN ZONES AND TOWARD S/CEN
TEXAS NEAR THE SLOW MOVING WARM FRONT. ANY UPPER ENERGY IN THE SRN
STREAM JET WILL MAINLY REMAIN NORTHERN/NWRN SECTIONS OR FURTHER
NORTH INTO CEN TEXAS. STILL...MODELS SHOW MOIST SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE
ATMOSPHERE WITH NO CAP SO SHOULD SEE SOME ISOLD TO SCT SHOWER
ACTIVITY WITH SOME HEATING ON SUN. MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW WILL MEAN
BEST MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WILL BE INLAND ONCE AGAIN AND WILL SHOW
ISOLD POPS NEAR THE COAST INCREASING TO 30-40% INLAND/NORTH. TEMPS
WILL BE WARMER ON SUN GIVEN DEEP SRLY FLOW AND WILL LEAN TOWARD
COMPROMISE BETWEEN GUIDANCE NUMBERS.

&&

.MARINE...EXPECT NOCTURNAL JET TO KICK WINDS TO AROUND SCA LEVELS
FOR SEVERAL HOURS WERE WARMEST WATERS EXIST OFFSHORE...BUT THINK
SCEC WILL SUFFICE NEARSHORE. WINDS WILL DIMINISH ON SUNDAY AND NOT
EXPECTING ANY FLAGS ATTMM.

&&

.LONG-TERM (SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)...WARM FRONT WILL
CONTINUE TO RETREAT NORTHWARD SUNDAY NIGHT KEEPING MOST OF THE
PRECIP TO THE NORTH WITH IT.  WEAK EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES IN THE SW
FLOW AND INCREASING ASCENT AHEAD OF STRONG UPPER LOW MOVING INTO THE
SW MAY ALLOW FOR SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
NORTHERN COUNTIES SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY.  BEST LOW LEVEL THETA-E
RIDGING AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE LOOKS LIKE IT WILL REMAIN OVER
CENTRAL AND EASTERN TX THROUGH LATE MONDAY...SO WILL NOT GO ANY
HIGHER THAN 30 POPS THROUGH THAT TIMEFRAME.  UPPER LOW MOVES INTO
THE SOUTHERN PLAINS OVERNIGHT MONDAY WITH RAPID SFC PRESSURE FALLS
AND INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS OVER SOUTH TEXAS.  STRONG FRONT WILL
ADVANCE EASTWARD ACROSS THE STATE WITH SQUALL LINE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP DURING THE DAY TUESDAY.  GFS/ECMWF CONTINUE TO KEEP THE BEST
UPPER SUPPORT TO THE NORTH WITH LOW LEVEL FLOW VEERING AROUND TO THE
SW AND KEEPING SOUTH TX A LITTLE MORE CAPPED...HOWEVER...CANADIAN
HAS CONSISTENTLY BEEN A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE SOUTH AND A LITTLE
LESS AGGRESSIVE WITH THE LOW LEVEL VEERING.  FOR NOW WILL STAY A
LITTLE MORE IN LINE WITH THE GFS AND ONLY HAVE 30-40 POPS OVER THE
NORTHEAST AND WATERS FOR TUESDAY AS SOUTHERN EXTENT OF SQUALL LINE
MAY CLIP THESE AREAS.  MAY HAVE TO NUDGE POPS UP A BIT IF UPPER LOW
TAKE A LITTLE MORE SOUTHERLY TRACK.  STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION
PERSISTS THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH 1025MB HIGH EXPECTED TO BE
SITUATED RIGHT OVER SOUTH TX WED NIGHT.  COLDEST TEMPS OF THE SEASON
EXPECTED THU MORNING WITH LOWS IN THE MID/UPPER 30S OVER THE NW AND
NEAR 40 EAST.  WARMUP TO NEAR NORMALS EXPECTED BY THE WEEKEND.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...

CORPUS CHRISTI  71 82 71 81 70 / 20 20 20 20 20
VICTORIA        70 81 69 79 68 / 30 40 20 30 30
LAREDO          69 83 67 83 63 / 10 20 20 30 20
ALICE           70 84 69 81 68 / 20 30 20 20 20
ROCKPORT        72 81 73 81 70 / 30 20 20 20 20
COTULLA         68 81 67 79 61 / 20 40 30 30 30

&&

.CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT
FROM BAFFIN BAY TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20-60NM OFFSHORE.

&&

MJG...SHORT-TERM
91/JD...LONG-TERM

Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 20, 7:00 AM CST, 14 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
700 AM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-211200-
BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS-
BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR-
COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-
WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM-
WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM-
ARANSAS-BEE-CALHOUN-DUVAL-GOLIAD-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-LA SALLE-LIVE OAK-
MCMULLEN-NUECES-REFUGIO-SAN PATRICIO-VICTORIA-WEBB-
527 AM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
TODAY...WITH THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR RAIN WILL BE OVER THE VICTORIA
AREA AND THE NORTHEASTERN COASTAL COUNTIES.  ONE OR TWO STORMS COULD
BECOME SEVERE...MAINLY NORTH OF A BEEVILLE TO ROCKPORT LINE...AND
PRODUCE WINDS AROUND 60 MPH OR PENNY SIZED HAIL. SOME STORMS COULD
ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...MAINLY OVER THE VICTORIA AREA
AND THE COASTAL COUNTIES. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT MAINLY OVER THE VICTORIA AREA AND THE NORTHERN
COASTAL COUNTIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS DURING THE DAY ON
TUESDAY.  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME TO AN END AS THIS
BOUNDARY MOVES INTO THE COASTAL WATERS.  SOME OF THESE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...MAINLY ACROSS THE
VICTORIA AREA. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE
GULF WATERS BEHIND THIS COLD FRONT.  OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS
WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY.

GW/MJ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 20, 7:40 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
740 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0736 PM     TSTM WND GST     VICTORIA                28.82N 96.98W
11/20/2004  70 MPH           VICTORIA           TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH ONE MILE NORTH OF FM 185 ON US 59

&&

SBS

Local storm report, Nov 20, 7:48 PM CST, 2 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
748 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0747 PM     FLASH FLOOD      VICTORIA                28.82N 96.98W
11/20/2004                   VICTORIA           TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NUMEROUS ROADS IN CENTRAL VICTORIA CITY FLOODED WITH
            WATER ENTERING SOME HOMES.

&&

SBS

Local storm report, Nov 20, 8:00 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
800 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0745 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     E PLACEDO               28.67N 96.83W
11/20/2004                   VICTORIA           TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            FUNNEL CLOUD SPOTTED JUST EAST OF PLACEDO MOVING
            NORTHEAST TOWARD VANDERBILT.

&&

SBS

Local storm report, Nov 20, 8:36 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
836 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0825 PM     FLASH FLOOD      TELFERNER               28.83N 96.83W
11/20/2004                   VICTORIA           TX   PUBLIC

            STREETS FLOODED IN TELFERNER

&&

SBS

Local storm report, Nov 20, 8:51 PM CST, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
851 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 PM     FLASH FLOOD      VICTORIA                28.82N 96.98W
11/20/2004                   VICTORIA           TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            ROADS THROUGHOUT CITY FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE. NUMEROUS
            VEHICLES STRANDED WITH RESCUES TAKING PLACE. VICTORIA
            FIRE DEPT ADVISES CITIZENS TO REMAIN IN PLACE OR AT HOME
            UNTIL FLOOD WATERS RECEDE.

&&

JR

Local storm report, Nov 20, 9:05 PM CST, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
905 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0845 PM     FLASH FLOOD      E VICTORIA              28.82N 96.98W
11/20/2004                   VICTORIA           TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            COUNTY ROADS 442, 234 AND 616 EAST OF VICTORIA HAVE 2 TO
            3 FEET OF WATER COVERING SECTIONS OF THE ROADWAYS.

&&

SBS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 20, 6:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Victoria	46 min
Nov 20, 7:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Victoria	63 min
Nov 20, 7:54 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
Nov 20, 11:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	83 min
Nov 21, 12:57 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
Nov 21, 6:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad	2 hr
Nov 21, 8:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad	2 hr
Nov 21, 9:52 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	3 hr
Nov 21, 10:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad	3 hr
Nov 21, 12:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
Nov 21, 2:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.