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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2006, 2:30 AM CDT for La Salle County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 5, 2006, 2:30 AM CDT (07:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2006, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1772 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 Jul 4, 6:49 PM CDT, 7 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 6:49 PM CDT, 7 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 5:48 AM CDT, 20 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 548 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 2006 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-051100- 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- 548 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR THE COUNTIES OF CALHOUN...KLEBERG...NUECES...SAN PATRICIO...BEE... GOLIAD...VICTORIA...ARANSAS AND REFUGIO. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING...FOLLOWED BY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS MOIST GULF OF MEXICO AIR CONTINUES TO RESIDE OVER SOUTH TEXAS AND COMBINE WITH A WEAKENING UPPER LEVEL LOW AND THE SEABREEZE TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE 1 TO 2 INCH RANGE WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL DECREASE SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE STARTS TO BUILD INTO THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY. 87/98
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:01 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 29 min | |
| Jul 5, 11:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Kleberg, Nueces and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 3 hr | |
| Jul 5, 2:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 115 min |
| Jul 5, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Jul 5, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 62 min | |
| Jul 5, 3:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas | 119 min |
| Jul 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 101 min | |
| Jul 5, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 114 min | |
| Jul 5, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Jul 5, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 20 min |
| Jul 5, 5:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 116 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.