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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 18, 2015Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this river flood warning at Mar 18, 2015, 6:27 AM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 18, 2015, 11:41 AM CDT. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 18, 2015, 6:27 AM CDT (11:27 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 18, 2015, 11:41 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 19, 2015, 1:24 PM CDT
In force: 26 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Bee County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Aransas River near Skidmore (SKMT2). The gauge peaked at 17.72 ft at Mar 18, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08189700, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 18, 4:14 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 4:14 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 18, 5:32 AM CDT, 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 18, 1:14 AM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
114 AM CDT WED MAR 18 2015

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

1255 AM     FLOOD            GEORGE WEST             28.33N 98.12W
03/18/2015                   LIVE OAK           TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FLOODING BEGINNING IN CITY OF GEORGE WEST. STARTING TO
            CLOSE SOME STREETS IN THE CITY.

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GWILK

Local storm report, Mar 18, 4:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 18, 4:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 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
Mar 18, 12:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen	3 hr
Mar 18, 1:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Bee, Live Oak	3 hr
Mar 18, 1:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Bee, Goliad	3 hr
Mar 18, 1:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells	3 hr
Mar 18, 3:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	McMullen	3 hr
Mar 18, 3:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
Mar 18, 4:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak	3 hr
Mar 18, 4:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Bee, Goliad	117 min
Mar 18, 4:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Jim Wells, Live Oak	2 hr
Mar 18, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria	9 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.