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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

November 6, 2013Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 6, 2013, 5:11 PM CST for Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces 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
Nov 6, 2013, 5:11 PM CST (23:11 UTC)
Expired
Nov 6, 2013, 7:15 PM CST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2013-11-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 460 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2013-11-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 6, 3:50 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP62 hr
Nov 6, 3:24 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningCRP2 hr
Nov 6, 3:41 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPJim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces64 min
Nov 6, 4:26 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPDuval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces49 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.