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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 5, 2013McMullen County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 2013, 11:11 PM CDT for McMullen 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
Oct 5, 2013, 11:11 PM CDT (04:11 UTC)
Expired
Oct 6, 2013, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County McMullen County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 00:00Z on 2013-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2052 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2013-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
2052 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 10:35 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPMcMullen55 min
Oct 5, 10:38 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPLive Oak52 min
Oct 5, 10:44 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPLa Salle, McMullen61 min
Oct 5, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, McMullen62 min
Oct 6, 12:02 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPDuval, McMullen118 min
Oct 6, 4:50 AM CDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryCRPKleberg, Nueces17 hr

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.