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Flash Flood Watch 9, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 29, 201515 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood watch at May 29, 2015, 3:25 PM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 30, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2015, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
In effect from: May 30, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 31, 2015, 3:26 AM CDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Flood severity: None

Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 3225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 29, 1:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 1:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 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
May 29, 1:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen	53 min
May 29, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	56 min
May 29, 2:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	3 hr
May 29, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Bee, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Webb	57 min
May 29, 2:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Duval, Live Oak, McMullen, Webb	3 hr
May 29, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Bee, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen and 3 more	63 min
May 29, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, McMullen	52 min
May 29, 3:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Webb	3 hr
May 29, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Webb	54 min
May 29, 3:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 5 more	66 min
May 29, 3:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Bee, Duval, Live Oak, Webb	3 hr
May 29, 3:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	23 min
May 29, 4:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		118 min
May 29, 4:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	29 min
May 29, 4:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and 2 more	63 min
May 29, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval, Webb	22 min
May 29, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	48 min
May 29, 5:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and 1 more	3 hr
May 29, 5:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces	34 min
May 29, 5:46 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		119 min
May 29, 7:46 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		44 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.