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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 17, 2010, 7:10 AM CDT for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 110 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
- Apr 17, 2010, 7:10 AM CDT (12:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2010, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 110 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:09 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 898 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 17, 6:34 AM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 6:34 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 17, 4:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 445 AM CDT SAT APR 17 2010 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-181100- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT O'CONNOR- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 445 AM CDT SAT APR 17 2010 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 THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR MUCH OF SOUTH TEXAS. NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AGAIN TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING...WITH THE APPROACH OF ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. GENERALLY...1/2 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT...HOWEVER ISOLATED POCKETS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN LOCALLY HEAVIER RAINFALL. DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUNDS FROM RECENT RAINFALL THIS WEEK...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF THESE AMOUNTS MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. IN ADDITION...A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY MAINLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED...BUT DUE TO THE RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL ISOLATED FLOODING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT...ALTHOUGH THE CONCERN WILL BE SLIGHTLY DIMINISHED DUE TO THE DRIER AIR EXPECTED TO ENTER THE AREA. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY...WITH ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. AT THIS TIME...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. JR/GW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 11 days |
| Apr 16, 8:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 4 hr |
| Apr 16, 9:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Refugio, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 108 min |
| Apr 17, 10:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 114 min |
| Apr 17, 2:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 115 min |
| Apr 17, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 118 min |
| Apr 17, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 3:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen, San Patricio | 69 min |
| Apr 17, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 23 min |
| Apr 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 58 min |
| Apr 17, 4:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, Webb | 38 min |
| Apr 17, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 5:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 31 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.