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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 1, 2006Goliad County, Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2006, 6:46 AM CDT for Goliad County, Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2006, 6:46 AM CDT (11:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2006, 8:45 AM CDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Goliad County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 1, 5:50 AM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 5:50 AM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 6:38 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
638 AM CDT THU JUN 1 2006

GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-021100-
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-
LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL-
JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN-
638 AM CDT THU JUN 1 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE
TEXAS COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
TODAY ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND AND VICTORIA CROSSROADS...WITH
FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES
WILL BE COMMON...WITH ISOLATED LOCATIONS RECEIVING BETWEEN 5 AND
10 INCHES.

AS A RESULT...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR COASTAL
COUNTIES AS WELL AS VICTORIA...GOLIAD AND BEE COUNTIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST FRIDAY. ONLY ISOLATED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY NIGHT. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS
WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

JR/WC

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 1, 1:08 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
108 AM CDT THU JUN 01 2006

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

0100 AM     FLASH FLOOD      CORPUS CHRISTI          27.71N 97.29W
06/01/2006                   NUECES             TX   NWS EMPLOYEE

            UNDERPASSES AND ACCESS ROADS FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE NEAR
            HIGHWAY 44 AND S.P.I.D.

&&

RUNYEN

Local storm report, Jun 1, 3:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 6:35 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 12:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Nueces	117 min
Jun 1, 2:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	116 min
Jun 1, 2:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	118 min
Jun 1, 4:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 4 more	38 hr
Jun 1, 4:05 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		25 min
Jun 1, 4:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	114 min
Jun 1, 4:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	115 min
Jun 1, 5:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio	117 min
Jun 1, 7:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, Nueces, Refugio	2 hr
Jun 1, 8:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun	2 hr
Jun 1, 8:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
Jun 1, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, Refugio	2 hr
Jun 1, 10:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun	2 hr
Jun 1, 10:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	119 min
Jun 1, 12:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun	2 hr
Jun 1, 2:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun	2 hr
Jun 1, 4:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun	117 min
Jun 1, 5:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.