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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 26, 2014Bee County, Goliad County, Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood watch at May 26, 2014, 2:58 PM CDT for Bee County, Goliad County, Victoria County, Texas. It took effect at May 26, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2014, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
In effect from: May 26, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 27, 2014, 9:05 PM CDT
In force: 29 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Flood severity: None

Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 1630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at May 26, 1:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 11:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 2:34 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
234 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014

TXZ232-262015-
BEE-
234 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING BEE COUNTY...

AT 231 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NORMANNA...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BEEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY BE POSSIBLE
WITH THIS STORM AS RADAR INDICATES SOME WEAK ROTATION.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

CB

Local storm report, May 26, 2:57 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
257 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1120 AM     FLASH FLOOD      2 NW VICTORIA           28.84N 97.01W
05/26/2014                   VICTORIA           TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NUMEROUS FLOODED ROADWAYS AND SUBDIVISIONS. WATER AS DEEP

            AS 12-15 INCHES NEAR INTERSECTION OF NURSERY AND PARSONS.

1252 PM     FLASH FLOOD      VICTORIA                28.82N 96.98W
05/26/2014                   VICTORIA           TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            JUST OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN IN 6 HRS...ONE MILE NORTH OF
            MALL...THAT IS ON NORTHEAST SIDE OF VICTORIA.

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DVOGELSA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	63 min
May 26, 9:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
May 26, 9:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	3 hr
May 26, 3:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
May 26, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Bee, San Patricio	33 min
May 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Bee, Refugio, San Patricio	30 min
May 26, 5:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Bee, San Patricio	93 min

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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.