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Coastal Flood Statement 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this coastal flood statement at Oct 16, 2008, 5:10 AM CDT for Aransas County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 2008, 5:10 AM CDT (10:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:12 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 8 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
- 1607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this coastal flood statement 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 coastal flood statement went out at Oct 16, 4:59 AM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 4:59 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 15, 5:55 AM CDT, 23 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 555 AM CDT WED OCT 15 2008 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-161100- 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- 555 AM CDT WED OCT 15 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AS A TROPICAL WAVE PROVIDES DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE AND INTERACTS WITH A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED AND SOME MINOR FLOODING OF CREEKS AND LOW LYING ROADWAYS WILL BE POSSIBLE. RAINFALL TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO AVERAGE 1 TO 3 INCHES...HOWEVER ISOLATED RAINFALL TOTALS AS HIGH AS 3 TO 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 4:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces | 99 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.