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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 2008, 1:50 PM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
- Aug 24, 2008, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2008, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 2205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 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 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 Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDT, 20 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDT, 20 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 12:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 5:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2008Every flash flood warning in 2008
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.