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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

April 16, 2010Bee County, Goliad County, Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 2010, 5:38 AM CDT for Bee County, Goliad County, Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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
Apr 16, 2010, 5:38 AM CDT (10:38 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 2010, 8:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Live Oak County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 315 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2010-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 306 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2010-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 Apr 16, 4:54 AM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 4:54 AM CDT, 44 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 16, 2:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 16, 4:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 7:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval111 min
Apr 15, 9:20 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPLive Oak, McMullen115 min
Apr 15, 9:44 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningCRPWebb4 days
Apr 15, 9:44 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningCRPWebb3 days
Apr 15, 11:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPMcMullen116 min
Apr 16, 1:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPMcMullen3 hr
Apr 16, 1:29 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningCRPLive Oak, McMullen7 hr
Apr 16, 2:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPLive Oak3 hr
Apr 16, 4:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPMcMullen4 hr
Apr 16, 7:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPMcMullen91 min
Apr 16, 8:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Goliad, Live Oak, Refugio, Victoria2 hr
Apr 16, 9:36 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningCRPMcMullen100 min
Apr 16, 10:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchCRPBee, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle and 7 more42 hr
Apr 16, 10:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPVictoria2 hr
Apr 16, 12:28 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningCRPLive Oak, Nueces, San Patricio3 days
Apr 16, 12:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Live Oak, San Patricio114 min
Apr 16, 1:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells2 hr
Apr 16, 1:53 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningCRPDuval3 hr
Apr 16, 2:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg, Nueces115 min
Apr 16, 3:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Goliad, Live Oak, Refugio, San Patricio116 min
Apr 16, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells92 min
Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPGoliad, Victoria2 hr
Apr 16, 4:39 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningCRPDuval4 hr
Apr 16, 4:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio and 1 more113 min
Apr 16, 5:03 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningCRPBee, Nueces, San Patricio28 hr
Apr 16, 6:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces and 2 more76 min

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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.