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Flash Flood Watch 8, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood watch at Jul 5, 2007, 6:56 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2007, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2007, 8:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Refugio County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 789 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jul 5, 2:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 6:12 AM CDT, 12 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 612 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2007 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-061115- 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- 612 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER SOUTH TEXAS WILL INTERACT WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE OVER THE REGION TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. RAIN AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE COMMON WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO 6 INCHES POSSIBLE OVER THE COASTAL PLAINS. WITH SATURATED SOIL CONDITIONS ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH TEXAS...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO FLOODING PROBLEMS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ESPECIALLY OVER THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ABUNDANT TROPICAL MOISTURE AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS FRIDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED SOILS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO ADDITIONAL LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS FRIDAY. ADDITIONAL RAIN AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY. FOR THE REST OF THE PERIOD...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ON SATURDAY...ISOLATED SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL PRIMARILY BE ASSOCIATED WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND THE SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TMT/TE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:40 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 18 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 5:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:17 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Goliad, Victoria | 20 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:58 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 6 days |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2007Every flash flood watch in 2007
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.