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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 25, 2010Jim Wells County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2010, 12:43 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
May 25, 2010, 12:43 PM CDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2010, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Jim Wells County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2458 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2458 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
5.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 5:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLa Salle55 min
May 25, 8:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLive Oak, McMullen42 min
May 25, 9:48 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPDuval117 min
May 25, 11:54 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPDuval, Jim Wells, Live Oak111 min
May 25, 1:21 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP114 min
May 25, 1:39 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPJim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces111 min
May 25, 4:26 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP2 hr
May 25, 4:51 PM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP4 hr
May 25, 6:40 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP50 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.