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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 2, 2010Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2010, 7:43 PM CDT for Webb 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: Jun 2, 2010, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2010, 9:33 PM CDT
In force: 110 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3094 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.4

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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 Jun 2, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 3:43 PM CDT, 4 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
343 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010

GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-032045-
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-
343 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE
TEXAS COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY EAST OF LINE FROM
ROCKPORT TO BEEVILLE. THE PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WIND. THE BULK OF ANY SEVERE ST ROMS WILL LIKELY OCCUR
FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. AFTERWARD...
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DISSIPATE FROM WEST TO
EAST ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

ONGOING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS AND EASTERN
PORTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS ON THURSDAY MORNING ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE
EAST BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. STRONG WINDS UP TO 60 MPH AND HEAVY
RAIN BETWEEN 2 AND 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE STRONGER STORMS.

AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES WILL RANGE BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES FROM
FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND...MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 37.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:57 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	53 min
Jun 2, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle, Webb	65 min
Jun 2, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle, Webb	61 min
Jun 2, 9:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	La Salle, Webb	112 min
Jun 2, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb	62 min
Jun 2, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio, Victoria	56 min
Jun 2, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells	54 min
Jun 2, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, San Patricio	56 min
Jun 2, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Live Oak, Refugio, Victoria	62 min
Jun 2, 10:38 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		3 hr
Jun 2, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	61 min
Jun 2, 10:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Bee, San Patricio	26 min
Jun 2, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria	55 min
Jun 2, 11:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio	34 min
Jun 2, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	24 min
Jun 2, 11:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Aransas, Nueces	20 min
Jun 2, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	42 min
Jun 3, 1:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		95 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.